Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.
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As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
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A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
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I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
