Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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 said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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