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• A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec
• 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...
• 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...
• May you live all the days of your life.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• 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...
• T is happy for him that his father was before him.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii...
• She pays him in his own coin. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii
• She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii...