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“ Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. ”

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May you live every day of your life.

~ Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift Inspirational Life Philosophy Wisdom

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

~ Jonathan Swift

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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

~ Jonathan Swift

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Books, the children of the brain.

~ Jonathan Swift

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