Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTAle is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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