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Letter "J" » Jonathan Swift Quotes
«Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived»
«It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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distinguished, satirize, satirized, vices
«It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind»
«Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading»
«It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development»
«Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person»
«Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.»
«There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.»
«Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.»
«He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.»
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