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Jonathan Swift Quotes

«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.»
«It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: soils, vein
«But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.»
«Don't set your wit against a child.»
«The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.»
«Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.»
«He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.»
«Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: Taverns
«I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth»
«I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Love | Keywords: done with, fourteen, Old Enough

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