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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Category: Age Author: Jonathan Swift
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Category: Age Author: Jonathan Swift
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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Category: Appearance Author: Jonathan Swift
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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Category: Boldness Author: Jonathan Swift
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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Jonathan Swift
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Category: Coffee and Caffeine Author: Jonathan Swift
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Category: Conformity Author: Jonathan Swift
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Jonathan Swift
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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.
Category: Food Author: Jonathan Swift
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n a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Category: Genius Author: Jonathan Swift
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Category: Government Author: Jonathan Swift
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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Category: Insults and Comebacks Author: Jonathan Swift Source: Polite Conversation
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Category: Intelligence Author: Jonathan Swift
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
Category: Poker Author: Jonathan Swift
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Category: Prayer Author: Jonathan Swift
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Category: Religion Author: Jonathan Swift
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War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
Category: War Author: Jonathan Swift
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