It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTPoor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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