Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
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
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl