" I row after health like a waterman… "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. "

Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. "

Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" 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 Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" No wise man ever wished to be younger. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. "

Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711 Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" May you live all the days of your life. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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