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• Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• That is as well said as if I had said it myself.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• You must take the will for the deed.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• May you live all the days of your life.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• T is as cheap sitting as standing.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...