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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
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Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
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When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
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My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire I was the Third of five Sons.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.
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Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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The more careless, the more modish.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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