240 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - engelsk satiriker och författare.
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en I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
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en Come, agree, the law's costly.
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en I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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en Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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en In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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en It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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en But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
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en Don't set your wit against a child.
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en The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
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en Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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en 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.
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en Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle
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en I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
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en I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen
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en When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
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