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• As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. vii...
• 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
• 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...
• 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...
• 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)...
• The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Battle of the Book...
• T is as cheap sitting as standing.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
• I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swif