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title: "19 Should Quotes By Jonathan Swift"
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> [Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/your-onions-should-be-thoroughly-boiled/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/an-intelligent-person-should-put-money-in-the-beginning-but-not-in/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/my-nose-itched-and-i-knew-i-should-drink-wine-or-kiss-a-fool/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-wise-man-should-have-money-in-his-head-but-not-in-his-heart/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/strange-an-astrologer-should-die-without-one-wonder-in-the-sky/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/this-wine-should-be-eaten-it-is-too-good-to-be-drunk/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/what-poet-would-not-grieve-to-see-his-brother-write-as-well-as-he-but/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/in-church-your-grandsire-cut-his-throat-to-do-the-job-too-long-he/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/though-fear-should-lend-him-pinions-like-the-wind-yet-swifter-fate/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/it-is-impossible-that-anything-so-natural-so-necessary-and-so/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/this-is-every-cook-s-opinion-no-savory-dish-without-an-onion-but-lest/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-traveler-s-chief-aim-should-be-to-make-men-wiser-and-better-and-to/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [They say fish should swim thrice \* \* \* first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/they-say-fish-should-swim-thrice-first-it-should-swim-in-the-sea-do/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/hereditary-right-should-be-kept-sacred-not-from-any-inalienable-right/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/in-all-i-wish-how-happy-should-i-be-thou-grand-deluder-were-it-not/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/your-notions-of-friendship-are-new-to-me-i-believe-every-man-is-born/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/atlas-we-read-in-ancient-song-was-so-exceeding-tall-and-strong-he/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-will-venture-to-affirm-that-the-three-seasons-wherein-our-corn-has/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-jargon-form-d-from-the-lost-language-wit-confounded-in-that-babel/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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## Other authors on Should

## More by Jonathan Swift

> [Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/time-is-painted-with-a-lock-before-and-bald-behind-signifying-thereby/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/he-said-he-knew-no-reason-why-those-who-entertain-opinions/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-with-borrow-d-silver-shine-what-you-see-is-none-of-mine-first-i/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-favor-is-half-granted-when-graciously-refused/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-never-wonder-to-see-men-wicked-but-i-often-wonder-to-see-them-not/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/the-best-maxim-i-know-in-this-life-is-to-drink-your-coffee-when-you/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [A lie is an excuse guarded](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-lie-is-an-excuse-guarded/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sham-quotations-peri-hupsos-and/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [May you live every day of your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/may-you-live-every-day-of-your-life/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/ale-is-meat-drink-and-cloth-it-will-make-a-cat-speak-and-a-wise-man/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/all-fits-of-pleasure-are-balanced-by-an-equal-degree-of-pain-or/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/satire-is-a-sort-of-glass-wherein-beholders-do-generally-discover/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/when-a-great-genius-appears-in-the-world-you-may-know-him-by-this/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-have-ever-hated-all-nations-professions-and-communities-and-all-my/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

> [So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/so-endless-and-exorbitant-are-the-desires-of-men-that-they-will-grasp/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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                        "text": "Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.",
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