You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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