When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFTWar: that mad game the world so loves to play.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Every dog must have his day.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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