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• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• 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....
• War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince
  and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted....
• Every dog must have its day. -- Jonathan Swif
• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money
  herefore, money is better than counsel. -- Jonathan Swif...
• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. -- Jonathan Swif
• Philosophy! The lumber of the schools. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)