Quotes by Jonathan Swift
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
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War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
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