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• Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

  Jonathan Swift

  Women, Two, Intimate

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• An excuse is a lie guarded.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Responsibility, Excuse

  Jonathan Swift (1850). “The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author”, p.837

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• Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

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  Kind, Rating, Pedantry

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.268

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• Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

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  Way, Flattery, Worst

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

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• When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

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  Reeds, Secrecy, Danger

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1516, Delphi Classics

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• There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

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  Men, Age, Six

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• Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

  Jonathan Swift

  Plato, Pride, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.554

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• She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

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  Body, Littles, Goodness

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.75

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• If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

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  Science, Gulliver, World

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• Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  Swift, Jonathan (2016). “A Tale of a Tub - (1704)”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

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  Believe, Men, Mourning

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• A carpenter is known by his chips.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Identity

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Poems, Polite convesation, etc”, p.344

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• She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

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  Cat, Watches, Mice

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The Works of D. Jonathan Swift: In Nine Volumes”, p.296

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• The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

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  Greatness, Men, Two

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

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  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
  Inherits every virtue sound,
  As emblems of the sovereign power,
  Like other baubles in the Tower:
  Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
  And so continues till he dies.

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  Wise, Sovereign, Sound

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

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  Birthday, People, Soul

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• 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?

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  Funny, Humorous, Delicacy

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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• Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

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  Distance, Men, Order

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.306

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• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

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  Knaves, Flattery, Invention

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.55

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• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

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  Coffee, Believe, Writing

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.57

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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.

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  Carpe Diem, Past, Locks

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.159

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

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  Literature, Poison, Beast

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

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  Heart, Intelligent, Should

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• Observation is an old man's memory.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Men, Literature

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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