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• 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 Swift

  Differences, Mind, World

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.285

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Men, Rogues

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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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• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Rogues, Fiddlers

  1711 Journal to Stella, 25 July.

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

  Jonathan Swift

  Acknowledge You, Yesterday, World

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• For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Men, Doors

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

  Jonathan Swift

  Companion, Coaches, Pleasant

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• Don't set your wit against a child.

  Jonathan Swift

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.279

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nurse, Miracle, Age

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.304

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• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Despise, Despised

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• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  Jonathan Swift

  School, Men, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.121

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• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Thinking, Flying

  "Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1711-1726.

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• This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Honor, Degrees

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Men, Every Man

  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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• The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

  Jonathan Swift

  Gulliver, Doe, Watches

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• Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Real, Vision, Invisible

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• That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Envy, Common, Incessant

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.327

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• Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

  Jonathan Swift

  Justice, Judging, Office

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• Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wind, Understanding

  Jonathan Swift, Frank H. Ellis (2006). “A Tale of a Tub: The Battle of the Books ; The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”, p.68, Peter Lang

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• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Food, Years

  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

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• This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;
  Shall still be kept with Joy by me:
  This Day then, let us not be told,
  That you are sick, and I grown old

  Jonathan Swift

  Fate, Sick, Joy

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems”, p.500

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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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