I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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