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- Read the works of Jonathan Swift online at The Literature Page
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Jonathan Swift
- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Jonathan Swift
- I row after health like a waterman...
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Jonathan Swift
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Jonathan Swift
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
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Jonathan Swift
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Jonathan Swift
- May you live all the days of your life.
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Jonathan Swift
- No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Jonathan Swift
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
- When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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