If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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