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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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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
— Lewis Carroll
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray…
— Joshua Slocum
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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his…
— James Joyce
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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
— Jonathan Swift
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Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on…
— Lewis Carroll
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…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare…
— Pat Conroy
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Leo scratched his head. “Well I dunno about Enchiladas-“ “Enceladus,” Piper corrected. “Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear,…
— Rick Riordan
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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way,…
— T.H. White
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Intercourse with a porpoise is a dream for me, hell bent on inventing a new species.
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