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• 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...
• Bread is the staff of life. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface
• 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...
• 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...
• They say a carpenter 's known by his chips.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
  or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
• She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...