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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient. (Jonathan Swift)
You must take the will for the deed. View quote
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If it had been a bear it would have bit you. View quote
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Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. View quote
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Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. View quote
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. View quote
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. View quote
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A penny for your thoughts. View quote
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She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. View quote
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Hail fellow, well met. View quote
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. (Jonathan Swift)
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. View quote
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. View quote
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. View quote
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Don't set your wit against a child. View quote
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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. View quote
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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. View quote
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. View quote
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The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. View quote
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. View quote
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. (Jonathan Swift)
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him. View quote
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics. View quote
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top. View quote
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So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. View quote
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