You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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