It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
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Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
Jonathan Swift
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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