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Common Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by…
- There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am…
- For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...
- Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
- It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to…
- Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes…
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- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain