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She pays him in his own coin.

— Jonathan Swift

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.
  2. There was all the world and his wife.
  3. Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
  4. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.
  5. I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
  6. A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
  7. I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
  8. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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Topics in this quote

  • war
  • behavior
  • justice
  • response
  • retribution

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