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• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Gulliver's Travels, Part iii, Chap. v, Voyage to Laputa...
• Big-endians and small-endians. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Gulliver's Travels, Part i, Chap.
  iv, Voyage to Lillipu...
• She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay, Horace ate himself one day.
  He didn't stop to say his grace, he just sat down and ate his face....
• A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Chap. vii...
• On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
  or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...