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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Human Rights Activist
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
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Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
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Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right She may then grow wise for spite.
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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