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I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen


Jonathan Swift

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JONATHAN SWIFT They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.
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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...
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