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Quotations by author » Jonathan Swift
Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745
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Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Books, the children of the brain.
Books
Bread is the staff of life
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives
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Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart
Friends
Don't set your wit against a child.
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Every dog must have his day.
Animals
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Age
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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Faith! He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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