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.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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