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• As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Cold, Capricious

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• Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcastic, Fine Words, Wonder

  'Whitshed's Motto on his Coach' (1724) (Libertas... Freedom and the land of my birth)

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• Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Glasses, Faces

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.534, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Oratory, Firsts

  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.27

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• Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

  Jonathan Swift

  Political, Politics, Corruption

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.365

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Silly, Book

  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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• One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hurt, Military, Enemy

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.174

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• My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wine, Kissing, Noses

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Jobs, Cutting, Should Have

  'Verses on the Upright Judge'

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• Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Communication, Opinion

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

  Jonathan Swift

  Secret, Safe, Breasts

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1932, Delphi Classics

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• Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Pain, Irritation

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• Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

  Jonathan Swift

  Opinion, Quotations

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.316

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• All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

  Jonathan Swift

  Race, Missing, Would Be

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.347

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• When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Greed, Mind

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.893, Delphi Classics

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• A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kissing, Two, Certainty

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.57

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• A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Men, Rogues

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• Praise is the daughter of present power.

  Jonathan Swift

  Daughter, Praise

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

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• Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Glasses

  'The Battle of the Books' (1704) preface

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• There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Greed, Vices, Extremes

  "The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".

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• Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Gulliver, Poor Nations

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

  Jonathan Swift

  Block, Men, Want

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.614

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• If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Belief, Ifs

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