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Upon Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.…
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
- 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 will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful…
- Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
- If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
- I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but…
- And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot…
- I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to…
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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