If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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 best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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