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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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Philosophy, Believe, Fall

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• It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Talent, Human Nature

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.46

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• Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

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  Life And Death, Giving, Physicians

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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• I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Art, Men

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms" ch. 5 (1726)

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• There's none so blind as they that won't see.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Blind, Blindness

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.446

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• In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

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  Love, Men, Desire

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “Letters, Written by the Late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of His Friends: From the Year 1703-to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical”, p.117

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• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

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  Funny, Thinking, Flying

  "Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1711-1726.

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• Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

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  Sarcasm, Glasses, Faces

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.534, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

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  Father, Lying, Devil

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.558, Bantam Classics

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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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  Reading, Thinking, Criticism

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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  Acceptance, Men, Religion

  Attributed to Jonathan Swift in "Scientific American", Volume 7 (p. 338), 1851; also in M. M. Ballou "Treasury of Thought" (p. 433), 1884.

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• Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Limping, Truth And Lies, Lies Truth

  Speech by PM Najib Razak at WAN-IFRA 16th Asian Media Awards, www.nst.com.my. April 19, 2017.

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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  Broken Heart, Food, Pie

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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• If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

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  Belief, Ifs

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• Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

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  Light, Reason, Riders

  Jonathan Swift (1800). “Tale of a Tub: written for the universal improvemend of mankind”, p.140

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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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  Friendship, Family, Wisdom

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1168, Delphi Classics

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• Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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  Party, Political, Politics

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan”, p.255

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• Vision is seeing the invisible.

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  Vision, Invisible, Seeing

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• The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

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  People, Bird, Fruit

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

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  Death, Evil, Dying

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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  Inspirational, Success, Wise

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “Works”, p.380

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• A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

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  Drinking, Bottles, Literature

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• Many a truth is told in jest.

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  Wisdom, Truth Is, Jest

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• There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

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  Funny, Life, Money

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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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  Government, Slavery, Definitions

  The Drapier's Letters no. 4 (1724)

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