Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It chuckled. "Why do you think I'm chatting with you?


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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL
May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE
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
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re...
JONATHAN RABAN
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT