In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal art.
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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
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage and they were always mortal enemies
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.
Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
Jonathan Swift
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