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'T is as cheap sitting as standing. (Jonathan Swift)
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. View quote
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A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. View quote
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She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. View quote
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I hate nobody I am in charity with the world. View quote
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. View quote
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. View quote
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. View quote
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. View quote
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired... (Jonathan Swift)
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade. View quote
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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 not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either of wit or sublime. View quote
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They say a carpenter's known by his chips. View quote
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind. View quote
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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. View quote
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian. View quote
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You are as innocent as a devil of two years old. View quote
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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. View quote
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Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. View quote
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him. (Jonathan Swift)
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. View quote
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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, And with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain. View quote
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Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. View quote
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The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. View quote
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