Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT
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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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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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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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