Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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