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Apparently the Time Lords have a long and honourable tradition of genocide when they think the stakes are high enough


Jonathan Blum

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JONATHAN STROUD Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
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JONATHAN STROUD Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by...
JONATHAN KOZOL The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT