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• Bread is the staff of life. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface
• Books, the children of the brain. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. i
• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface...
• As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. vii...
• He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. xi...
• I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swif
• Every dog must have its day. -- Jonathan Swif
• The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body
  only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom. -- Jonathan Swif...
• T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fool
  Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit....