Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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