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• Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swif
• Every dog must have its day. -- Jonathan Swif
• She pays him in his own coin. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii
• Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money
  herefore, money is better than counsel. -- Jonathan Swif...
• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
• She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...