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Jonathan Swift20 quotes
Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool. — Jonathan Swift · 1726Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. — Jonathan Swift · 1745He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. — Jonathan Swift · 1726I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. — Jonathan Swift · 1726There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. — Jonathan Swift · 1738Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. — Jonathan Swift · 1727All 20 quotes →