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Reason Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any…
- Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
- There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am…
- The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
- You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
- Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
- For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to…
- 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…
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- 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…
- Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes…
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