More from Jonathan Swift

  1. I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world …
  2. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
  3. There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I …
  4. Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of thin…
  5. When I behold this I sighed, and said within myself, 'Surely mortal man is a broomstick!' Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, …
  6. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
  7. There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
  8. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

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