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Polite Conversation Why, ever...

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

He that calls a man ungratefu...

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

This wine should be eaten, it...

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

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Books, like men their authors...

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A stander-by may sometimes, p...

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

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A secret is seldom safe in mo...

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

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When a man is made a spiritua...

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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Lose no time to contradict he...

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

What vexes me most is, that m...

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.

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Vanity is a natural object of...

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

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When a man of genius appears ...

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

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The motives of the best actio...

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

I with borrow'd silver shine,...

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole.

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Orators inflame the people, w...

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

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The translators of the Bible ...

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

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I hope you will be ready to o...

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

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God hath intended our passion...

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

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In oratory the greatest art i...

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

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In all I wish, how happy shou...

In all I wish, how happy should I be,
Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

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Just get the right syllable i...

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....