Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. - Jonathan Swift
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had it… - Jonathan Swift
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had it…
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception i… - Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception i…
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