More from Jonathan Swift

  1. The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
  2. I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
  3. I told him...that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.
  4. I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
  5. A soldier is a Yahoo (man) hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.
  6. She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
  7. Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
  8. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

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