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Very Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
- There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am…
- 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…
- 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…
- Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing…
- For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
- Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year…
- Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception…
- Your notions of friendship arenew to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another.…
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