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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.


Jonathan Swift

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JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
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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...
JONATHAN SWIFT