There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT
JONATHAN SWIFT
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Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift 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.
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