All of them did some good things. All of them have some things that they need to clean up. It's still going to be pretty competitive going into the fall.
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pitchfork. JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi... JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ... JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ... JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ... JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ... JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a... JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim. JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnis... JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down! JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been... JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge. JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so. JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
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what nobody else has thought. JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller sti... JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
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