If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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