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not have given them to such a sco... JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu... JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left. Which ever side you think i... JONATHAN BAILEY If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou... JONATHAN SWIFT Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op... JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno... JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ... JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju... JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w... JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas... JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch... JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. JONATHAN SWIFT If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop... JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much. JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ... JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that. JONATHAN STROUD