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Poetry Swift Quotes by Jonathan Swift

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“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's…

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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…

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“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be…

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I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards…

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A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without…

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A lie is an excuse guarded

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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

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May you live every day of your life.

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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next…

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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…

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