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• Books, the children of the brain. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. i
• 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...
• Bread is the staff of life. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface
• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface...
• 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...
• And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of co
  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....
• Sparrows do it for a lark (hearsay).
• Ambition often puts men upon doing the mesaest office
  o climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
  -- Jonathan Swif...