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Eloquence smooth and cutting, is like a razor whetted with oil. (Jonathan Swift)
Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. View quote
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. View quote
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. View quote
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I row after health like a waterman... View quote
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Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine. View quote
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Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice but spared the name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. View quote
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Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting. View quote
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ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. View quote
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I said the thing which was not. View quote
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A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. (Jonathan Swift)
Here is laid the Body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Sacred Theology, Dean of this Cathedral Church, where fierce Indignation can no longer injure the Heart. Go forth, Voyager, and copy, if you can, this vigorous (to the best of his ability) Champion of Liberty. View quote
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Write your own name and your sweetheart's, with the smoke of a candle on the roof of the kitchen, or the servants hall, to show your learning. View quote
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. View quote
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. View quote
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Many a truth is told in jest. View quote
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. View quote
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. View quote
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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. View quote
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. View quote
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation. (Jonathan Swift)
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. View quote
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. View quote
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What some people invent the rest enlarge. View quote
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. View quote
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