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Jonathan Swift Quotes: Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
         

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.


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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.



Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.



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.

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.



Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.



When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.



You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday



The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.



He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.





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