But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.


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JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little cons...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
JONATHAN SWIFT
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to for...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
JONATHAN SWIFT
War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
JONATHAN SWIFT
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer an...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman
JONATHAN SWIFT
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
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A lie is an excuse guarded
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
JONATHAN SWIFT
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly
JONATHAN SWIFT
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
JONATHAN SWIFT
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titill...
JONATHAN SWIFT
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
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