Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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