We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants, who affect to talk in a language not to be understood.
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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Civility, intended to make us easy, is employed in laying chains and fetters upon us, in debarring us of our wishes, and in crossing our most reasonable desires.
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I do not attempt explaining the mysteries of the Christian religion: since Providence intended there should be mysteries it cannot be agreeable to piety, orthodoxy, or good sense to go about it.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk; he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew on his head; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, through the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults!
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Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
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These look up to you with reverence, and would be animated by the sight of him at whose soul they have taken fire in his writings.
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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.
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He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.
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All nations have agreed in the necessity of a strict education which consisted in the observance of moral duties.
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