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Some Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- What some people invent the rest enlarge.
- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed…
- I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front…
- Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
- 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…
- Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
- I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render…
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
- 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…
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
- Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.
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