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• El poder arbitrario es el objeto natural de tentación para un príncipe, como el vino y las mujeres para un joven, o el soborno para un juez, o la avaricia para la vejez.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vino, Juicio, Tentación

  Jonathan Swift (1861). "Las obras de Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions", p.612

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• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Despise, Despised

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• This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Honor, Degrees

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life And Death, Giving, Physicians

  Reflexiones sobre temas diversos, morales y divergentes

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• Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

  Jonathan Swift

  Perfection, Simplicity, Style

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.310

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• Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wind, Understanding

  Jonathan Swift, Frank H. Ellis (2006). “A Tale of a Tub: The Battle of the Books ; The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”, p.68, Peter Lang

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• What religion is he of?
  Why, he is an Anythingarian.

  Jonathan Swift

  Religión

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• Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Law, Eleven, Possession

  "Works". Volume XVII, p. 270,

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• Todo el mundo desea una larga vida, no una vejez.

  Jonathan Swift

  Largo, Edad, Deseo

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• Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Scarcity, Owing

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.388

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• Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Tragedy, Life Is

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.18, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Hobbes, States

  "On Poetry" l. 319 (1733)

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• Perverseness is your whole defence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Defence, Perverseness, Whole

  Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1871). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift”, p.235

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• I never knew any man cured of inattention.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Attention, Inattention

  Jonathan Swift (1751). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.205

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• Debo quejarme de que las cartas se barajan mal hasta que tengo una buena mano.

  Jonathan Swift

  Gambling, Hands, Complaining

  Citado en Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Pain, Hunting

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• Un verdadero crítico, al leer un libro, es como un perro en un festín, cuyos pensamientos y estómago están totalmente centrados en lo que los invitados tiran, y por lo tanto es propenso a gruñir más cuando hay menos huesos.

  Jonathan Swift

  Perro, Libro, Invitados

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). "Tale of a tub. Batalla de los libros. Discurso sobre la operación mecánica del espíritu. Resumen de la historia de Inglaterra ... Cartas ... Poemas atribuidos a Swift", p.107

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• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Cutting, Shoes

  Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)

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• I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, World, Charity

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• Los libros, hijos del cerebro.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspiración, Niños, Libro

  Jonathan Swift (2011). "Los viajes de Gulliver y otros escritos", p.372, Bantam Classics

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• Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fool, Defects

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.187

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• Whence proceeds this weight we lay
  On what detracting people say?
  Their utmost malice cannot make
  Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
  Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
  Or put one feature out of place.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Weight, Shapes

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.629

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• Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Company, Uneasy

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• Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wall, Ears, Tongue

  'A Pastoral Dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill' (1727) l. 8

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