Certain Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certain Fixed Forever Ifs Language Might Refined Standards Tongue
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If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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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… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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