168 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into
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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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May you live every day of your life.
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Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly
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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before
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