Of a Tale of a Tub Good God what a genius I had when I wrote that book.
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Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Your notions of friendship are new to me I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
Jonathan Swift
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
Jonathan Swift
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