When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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