It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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