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• 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...
• Books, the children of the brain. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. i
• 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...
• 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...
• It is a miserable thing to live in suspense, it is the life of the spider. -- Jonathan Swif
• I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
• I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Scott's Life of Swif...
• May you live all the days of your life.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...