"Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline.……" — Jonathan Swift
"Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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