Jonathan Swift

(21 votes)   When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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(16 votes)   We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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(14 votes)   Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

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(272 votes)   Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

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1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(217 votes)   Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

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(206 votes)   Come, agree, the law's costly.

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(132 votes)   In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

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(131 votes)   All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

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(96 votes)   Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

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(95 votes)   Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

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1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(94 votes)   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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(93 votes)   And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

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1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(92 votes)   But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

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(92 votes)   There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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(88 votes)   I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

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1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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