There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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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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