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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 And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to... JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio... JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. JONATHAN MILLER For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e... JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. JONATHAN WESTOVER What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ... JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men... JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t... JONATHAN RABAN