216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - of prose.
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 For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

 Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

 Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived

 Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

 He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

 He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

 How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

 Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction

 I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
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 I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen

 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.

 I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there

 I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand

 I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

 I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.


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