The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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 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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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