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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory

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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory Quotes

“... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.”

“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.”

“It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.”

“There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.”

“Observation is an old man's memory.”

“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”