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The proper words in the prope...

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

I never saw, heard, nor read,...

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Where there are large powers ...

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

I never wonder to see men wic...

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

There were many times my pant...

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A lie is an excuse guarded ...

A lie is an excuse guarded

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Under this window in stormy w...

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Every man desires to live lon...

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Satire is a sort of glass, wh...

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

There is nothing constant in ...

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Human brutes, like other beas...

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Good manners is the art of ma...

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Every dog must have his day. ...

Every dog must have his day.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Vanity is a mark of humility ...

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

It is a maxim among these law...

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

It is impossible that anythin...

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Invention is the talent of yo...

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Positiveness is a good qualit...

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A man should never be ashamed...

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Censure is the tax a man pays...

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

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