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And wink a reputation down! JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been... JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge. JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so. JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign p... JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought. JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller sti... JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ... JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him. JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p... JONATHAN SWIFT