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• 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....
• 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)...
• When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc.
  beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last....
• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperment and health.
  Some men are born old, and some never grow so. -- Tryon Edward...
• God is in my mind and the devil's in my pants. -- Jonathan Winte
• I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
• How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?
  -- Jonathan Swif...