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«And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole»
«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 by water.»
«How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?»
«That's as well said as if I had said it myself»
«The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit»
«But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.»
«Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.»
«She wears her clothes as if they are thrown on with a pitchfork»
«Better belly burst than good liquor be lost»
«'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
condescend, condescended, condescending, maxim
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