I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTPower is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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