The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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