Best Quotes by Jonathan Swift (Top 10)

  1. May you live all the days of your life.
  2. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
  3. We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
  4. Books, the children of the brain.
  5. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
  6. Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
  7. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
  8. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
  9. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
  10. For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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