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Often 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…
- It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for…
- I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my…
- A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and…
- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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