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Most Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
- That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would…
- What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I…
- Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
- The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
- Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
- Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year…
- 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…
- I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to…
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