Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTAn idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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