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Tag: Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.