There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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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