Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Books, the children of the brain.
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