I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
-- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
-- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii
Related:
- I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Polite Conversation, Dialogue... - May you live all the days of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Polite Conversation, Dialogue... - You must take the will for the deed.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Polite Conversation, Dialogue... - Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation... - I mean you lie--under a mistake.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Polite Conversation, Dialogue... - If it had been a bear it would have bit you.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Polite Conversation, Dialogue... - The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Polite Conversation, Dialogue... - Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation... - That is as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation...
From the same category:
- If apathy doesn't bother me,
I won't bother it... - Ambition: The dropsy'd thirst of empire,
wealth or fame. --... - Irrationality is the square root of all evil"
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Douglas... - It wasn't that she had a rose in her teeth, exactly.
It was more like the rose and the teeth were in the... - You know, you have to be careful not to get yourself
locked into this open systems stuff.
- IBM...
