I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
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What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.Jonathan Swift
A footman may swear but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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