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The fame of our writers is confined to these two islands, and it is hard if it should be limited in time as well as place by the perpetual variations of our speech.
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Citations by Jonathan Swift
Although virtuous men do sometimes accidentally make their way to preferment, yet the world is so corrupted that no man can reasonably hope to be rewarded in it merely on account of his virtue.
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The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other.
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit.
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The Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Dutch attain to the pronunciation of our words with ease, because our syllables resemble theirs in roughness and frequency of consonants.
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Considering the usual motives of human actions, which are pleasure, profit, and ambition, I cannot yet comprehend how these persons find their account in any of the three.
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According to this equality wherein God hath placed all mankind with relation to himself, in all the relations between man and man there is a mutual dependence.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
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I have been considering why poets have such ill success in making their court, since they are allowed to be the greatest and best of all flatterers: the defect is that they flatter only in print or in writing.
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