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Them Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- 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…
- Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please…
- The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
- My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live…
- 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…
- They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly…
- 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…
- O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of…
- It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe…
- 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…
- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
- 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…
- Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
- Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
- 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…
- 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…
- Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
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