Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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