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Opinion Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
- Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
- Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
- The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only…
- The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
- I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point…
- That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I…
- And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot…
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- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
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