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Quotes from A Tale of a Tub — Jonathan Swift

1667–1745 Ireland

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He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.

A Tale of a Tub (1704)

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.

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Satire, by being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

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As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

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Books, the children of the brain.

A Tale of a Tub (1704)

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

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Bread is the staff of life.

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