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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.
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