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Jonathan Swift has 276 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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…
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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…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…
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It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating…
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Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
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Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her…
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