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War: that mad game the world so loves to play. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1860). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.204
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ✨ The Drapier's Letters no. 4 (1724)
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). -5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reig … ▶
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1860). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Auth … ▶
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift..., p.365

War: that mad game the world so loves to play. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1860). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.204

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