More from Jonathan Swift

  1. She pays him in his own coin.
  2. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.
  3. She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.
  4. A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
  5. Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
  6. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
  7. I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
  8. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.'

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