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| Jonathan Swift
Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Books, the children of the brain.Every dog must have his day. I cannot but conclude that the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.I never saw, heard, nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution. I row after health like a waterman... It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. May you live all the days of your life.Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. No wise man ever wished to be younger. 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. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Poor starving bard, how small thy gains!Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Tell truth, and shame the devil. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
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