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Swift, Jonathan
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Action: Most sorts of diversion in men, children, and…
Action: You must take the will…
Age: No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Alcohol: We were to do more business after dinner; but…
Alexander Pope: In Pope I cannot read…
Ambition: I have heard of a…
Ambition: So, naturalist observe, a flea…
Appearance: She wears her clothes, as…
Banks and Bankers: A baited banker thus desponds, From his…
Behavior: Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the…
Bigotry: We have just enough religion…
Choice: Rather on this bleaky shore Where loudest winds…
Cruelty: Last week I saw a…
Death And Dying: It is impossible that anything so natural, so…
Doctors: Apollo was held the god of physic and…
Eating: I have fed like a…
England: I cannot but conclude the…
Envy: When a true genius appears…
Epitaphs: Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift, D.D., dean…
Fame: Censure is the tax a man pays to the…
Famine: I have been assured by…
Fear: If it had been a…
Flattery: 'Tis an old maxim in…
Food: He was a bold man…
Food: Kitchen Physic is the best…
Friendship: He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine…
Generosity: He gave what little wealth he had To build…
Genius: Good God! what a genius…
Gossip: It is folly of too many to mistake the echo…
Health And Healthy Living: The best doctors in the…
Heaven: What they do in heaven…
Human Condition: Bachelor's fare; bread and cheese,…
Human Condition: Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen…
Human Nature: I never wonder to see men wicked, but I…
Last Words: Ah, a German and a…
Law: Laws are like cobwebs, which…
Marriage: You have but a very…
Money: I won't quarrel with my…
Money: Money, the life-blood of the…
Nonsense: May you live all the…
Old Age: I shall be like that…
Old Age: My female friends, who could bear me very well a…
Old Age: Old men and comets have…
Perception: Vision is the art of seeing things…
Poetry: His vein, ironically grave, Exposed the fool,…
Poets: A poet, starving in a garret, Conning old…
Poets: Say, Britain, could you ever boast,— Three…
Poets: What poet would not grieve to see His…
Politicians: Whoever could make two ears…
Power: Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and…
Pride: Let pride be taught by…
Promises: Promises and pie-crust are made…
Relationships: We are so fond of…
Religious Leaders: I never saw, heard, nor…
Satire: He had been eight years…
Satire: Raillery gives no Offence, Where Truth has…
Satire: Satire is a sort of…
Sayings: A penny for your thoughts.
Sayings: There was all the world…
Sex: Now Betty from her master's bed had…
Style: Proper words in proper places,…
Sycophancy: Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest…
Teeth: Sweet things are bad for…
Travel: I always love to begin a journey on…
Wit: He washed himself with oriental…
Women: Nor do they trust their tongue alone, But speak…
Writers: A monster gibbering, shrieking and gnashing…
Writers: He delivered Ireland from plunder…
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