This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk. ✨ Jonathan Swif…

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This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1861). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.75
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If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1826). Gul … ▶
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1861). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions, p.608
Lawyers Are: Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ✨ Attributed to Jonathan Swift in Scientific American, Volume 7 (p. 338), 1851; also in M. M. Ballou Treasury of Th … ▶

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1861). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.75

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