Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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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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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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