An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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