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From Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the…
- Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying…
- They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly…
- Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
- No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
- Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or…
- 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…
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the…
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