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Book Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
- A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
- When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed…
- Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than…
- For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...
- Books, the children of the brain.
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