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• A college joke to cure the dumps.

  Jonathan Swift

  College, Cures, Dump

  Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1763). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Poems on several occasions”, p.358

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• Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
  To tell what every schoolboy knows.

  Jonathan Swift

  Education, Noses, Lifts

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, ...: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.153

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• A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

  Jonathan Swift

  Faith, Law, World

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.267

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• Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.590

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• I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Giving, Spades

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.78

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• Tell truth, and shame the devil.

  Jonathan Swift

  Truth, Devil, Shame

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.642

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• A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Years, Ease

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• I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

  Jonathan Swift

  Circles, World, Down And

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.237

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• Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

  Jonathan Swift

  Years, Age, Climate

  'On Poetry' (1733) l. 5

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• My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Book, Son

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.16, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Age, Might, Debate

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• Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dirty, Men, Hail

  My Lady's Lamentation" l. 165 (written 1728)

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• I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Travel, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1546, Delphi Classics

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• Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Lasts, Saws

  A Tale of a Tub ch. 9 (1704)

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• You must take the will for the deed.

  Jonathan Swift

  Deeds

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.69

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• A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Spring, Play

  Jonathan Swift (1801). “The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift”, p.411

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• Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

  Jonathan Swift

  Greatness, Painful, Neighbor

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.145

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• Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Two, Needs

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• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
  And cards and scandal are the chains,
  Where the pert virgin slights a name,
  And scorns to redden into shame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Reign, Scandal

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• I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Astrology, Long, Abuse

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.253

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• Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Age, Pedants

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.359

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• Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Men, Liberty

  Jonathan Swift (1801). “The Works ...”, p.45

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• A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Book, Greek

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• I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Advice, Forget

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.432

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