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• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
  -- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money
  herefore, money is better than counsel. -- Jonathan Swif...
• He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• A penny for your thoughts. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Introduction to Polite Conversatio
• As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...