Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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