| I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled, til I have a good hand. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| War! that mad game the world so loves to play. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| May you live all the days of your life. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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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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- Jonathan Swift |
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| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
more quotations on [Age] |
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| When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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| When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
more quotations on [Genius] [Conformity] |
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| Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. |
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- Jonathan Swift |
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