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Jonathan Swift Quotes
«Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
fallen, fall short, purposes
«Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.»
«I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.»
«So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
A.D., ad infinitum, flea, fleas, naturalist, naturalists, prey, smaller
«I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.»
«Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events»
