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 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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en A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
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en For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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en Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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en Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched
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en Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
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en Observation is an old man's memory.
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en I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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en The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
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en If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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en A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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en It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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en 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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en Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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en Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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