When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Jonathan SwiftTags: humor life inspirational satire
Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.
Jonathan SwiftSo Geographers in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o'er uninhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
Jonathan SwiftTags: law
I heartily hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ans so forth.
Jonathan SwiftI cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
Jonathan SwiftTags: misanthropy
Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift...I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.
Jonathan SwiftOpium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.
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