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Jonathan Swift Quotes About Caffeine

Quotes about: Caffeine
  • Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

    Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55
  • 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.

    Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1766). “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.297
  • A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

    Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

Jonathan Swift

  • Born: November 30, 1667
  • Died: October 19, 1745
  • Occupation: Pamphleteer
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