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Jonathan Swift Quotes

«Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched»
«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.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: asunder, stormy
«Observation is an old man's memory.»
«I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: abed, eminence
«The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.»
«If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: scoundrel
«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?»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: footman
«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.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: legally
«It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.»
«Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.»

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