It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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