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• So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey
  And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum....
• Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
  -- James D. Rega...
• How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• There is none so blind as they that won't see.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii...
• We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...
• It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Dedicatio...