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Out 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…
- Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain…
- He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let…
- I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a…
- 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…
- 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…
- If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the…
- Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five…
- You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
- Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
- In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please…
- Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- 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…
- This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of…
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
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