Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFTReasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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