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Opinions, like fashions, always descend from those of quality to the middle sort; and thence to the vulgar, where they are dropped and vanish.
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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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No translation our own country ever yet produced hath come up to that of the Old and New Testament; and I am persuaded that the translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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When men and women are mixed and well chosen, and put their best qualities forward, there may be any intercourse of civility and good will.
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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Learned women have lost all credit by their impertinent talkativeness and conceit.
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Some physicians have thought that if it were practicable to keep the humours of the body in an exact balance of each with its opposite, it might be immortal; but this is impossible in the practice.
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Astrologers with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets, to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
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