You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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