1726 · Skopia

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Satire · Travel writing

Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.5

Satire · Travel writing

He 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.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.4

Satire · Travel writing

I 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.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 4.5

Satire · Travel writing

They will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or his mother for bringing him into the world - which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts in their love encounters were otherwise employed.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 3.7

Satire · Travel writing

Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 3.7

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad.

The Seasons: Winter · 1726

★ 3.6

Travel writing · Satire

I cannot but conclude 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.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 2.0

Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

1726

★ 1.9

Pleasure is a thief to business.

1726

★ 1.2