Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.Jonathan Swift
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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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 some people invent the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
Jonathan Swift
She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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