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UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
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ERIC ZASTOUPIL Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
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From men of quality and letters;
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JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
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JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
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JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
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JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
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.
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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,
As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
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;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT