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• Bread is the staff of life. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface
• As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. vii...
• Books, the children of the brain. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. i
• It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Dedicatio...
• He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. xi...
• You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with alot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it....
• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
  -- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.
  Russian Proverb...
• Yo momma so fat they have to grease the bath tub to get her out!