Quote by Jonathan Swift
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a lit

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. – Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Chins without beards deserve no honor. – Proverb

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