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cylocyziruzu: There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. Jonathan Swift

truckingriches: A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift

RandomBotTaken: Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. - Jonathan Swift

smoochloona: unless ur reading a modest proposal by jonathan swift JFNDNSJDJR

abc2007xyz: yahoo ['jɑhuː /jɑː'huː] n. 1. not very intelligent or interested in culture 2. one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift 3. a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance

LittleBlueyRose: “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift This sense of seeing things in another way means that the Muse is very much by your side throughout the upcoming period.

katheder: In 1711 Mary Manley succeeded Jonathan Swift as editor of 'The Examiner'.

AbdultawabSalem: No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift

runnercyclist: 4 of 5 stars to A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

MaricEstrada1: 4 of 5 stars to A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

_quote_everyday: Health is the greatest of all possessions. -Jonathan Swift

Djhotboysmooth: "May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift

DrMattWhittle: "People didn't think colonialism and slavery were bad back then. You can't judge the past by today's standards". Jonathan Swift in 1726:

itsnashflynn: write your own mashup if you want, here are some other ideas: - curious george washington - jonathan taylor swift - j. edgar allan poe

SellaTheChemist: Another heir to Jonathan Swift's gift from hilarious savagery. "Americans can live without food. They can't live without Green Eggs and Ham" .

JohnHoodNC: Today's wisdom from Jonathan Swift: “The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”

cjvasse: I studied Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift during my undergraduate degree. However, the satirical, anticolonial text was isolated from the context of Britain’s colonial project as if (English) literature existed in an ahistorical vacuum. The whole is greater than the sum.

catbooks911: 5 of 5 stars to Viajes de Gulliver by Jonathan Swift

sergiotuiteando: Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift.

Philip_D_Conrad: No wise man ever wished to be younger. (Jonathan Swift)

CerebralWisdom: Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired... - Jonathan Swift

Robinidigo: jonathan swift returns from the dead to eat a cheese sandwich

inlieuoffunshow: Mystery Guest Sunday with Jonathan Rauch (aka Taylor Swift)

PhDhurtBrain: Shoulda known the internet would be trouble when one if it’s first major companies was named after Jonathan Swift’s racial allegory for human atavistic barbarism.

Matteo60392017: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." -Jonathan Swift

molloy1916: Today in 1745, Jonathan Swift died. In his satire, 'A Modest Proposal', he suggests a solution to famine: poor Irish families could sell their newborn babies to rich families to eat! “Delicious” whether “stewed, roasted, baked or boiled.” The fat rich still didn't get the point

Godward16: Like I bet Jonathan Swift would *hate it* that 99% of living intellectuals literally ONLY know him for his farcical joke about eating babies that he probably gave little thought to. They couldn’t name one other title by the guy. He’s nothing but a meme. But he was like…

MaricEstrada1: 28% done with A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift: “Men would become as fond of their w...

isaac_Ngabi: If Lilliput isn't real then why did Jonathan Swift write Gulliver's Travels??

ElPasoHub: "May you live every day of your life." - Jonathan Swift

VladIsac1: "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." – Jonathan Swift

TheConsworld: I just started reading the Jonathan Swift classic, Gulliver’s Travels’, along with my granddaughter. And considering the pace at which things are being banned nowadays, this might be our last chance.The book has its controversy, including a constant analysis of its main ...

welfordwrites: When a true genius appears in this world you may know him because all the dunces will be in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift

andiliit: “May you live all the days of your life.”– Jonathan Swift ANDREA BIG4THEWIN

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awad: Today's word is Brobdingnag, after Brobdingnag, a region where everything is enormous, in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". Earliest documented use: 1731. Learn more at:

mapledappa: "Falsehood flies, and truth limps after it" - Jonathan Swift

JohnHoodNC: Today's wisdom from Jonathan Swift: “Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”

MissouriBizness: Does satire even exist anymore? If Jonathan Swift wrote his A Modest Proposal I honestly think that Fox News' headline would be "Antifa wants to eat children"

ThatsCLAMPaf: Sold my 2nd Panini Blockchain card today. Goodbye Mr. Swift, it was fun. Still holding a Jonathan Taylor, Viska, and strange Carson Wentz Cleet card.

JohnHoodNC: Today's wisdom from Jonathan Swift: “Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

Philip_D_Conrad: No wise man ever wished to be younger. (Jonathan Swift)

eriiclindberg: For context's sake. Najee and Javonte grade out similarly to Jonathan Taylor. Etienne near Swift's level.

replyoursun: o quanto nosso gosto musical é parecido? 10% bts 10% stray kids 10% rivers and robots 10% jonathan ogden 10% red velvet 10% loona 10% taylor swift 10% paramore 10% demi lovato kibei

benkunz: I wish Jonathan Swift were alive to discuss Covid: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled."

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XmarCD: "May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift FRIDAYlicious CRISMAR

sjfbilton: ‘We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.’ Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Honey gifted this week by a lovely friend. The question is what should I do with all this glorious sweetness?

JoshFriedlander: For all the low IQ people, this is facetious. I don't actually support obesity passports or any health passports. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was also facetious. My Lord, some people really are dense.

AllPeopleAllNa1: A Modest Proposal. 'I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.' Jonathan Swift.

bookishcambs: Books in Cambridge - books by Graham and Jonathan Swift in front of the swift tower at Logan's Meadow.

MisterSalesman: "As the vilest writer hath his readers, so the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work." ~Jonathan Swift, The Art of Political Lying, 1710

K_McGrath_Queen: Why must I read the cursed words that is Jonathan Swift’s “a modest proposal” once again.

IndelibleSpock: Jonathan Swift would have been an incredible shit poster if he lived today

ianhughscott: 2. As Jonathan Swift wrote, "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

The_Fence_Mag: 'As the famous mixer of Anglican religion and Tory politics, Jonathan Swift, once observed: ‘I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them unashamed.'

WildeThoughtss: Ehhhh. They picked a WR pretending to be a DB when pretty much any Dolphins fan on earth would have gone with CEH, Higgins, swift, claypool, dobbins, Jonathan Taylor, Winfield, van Jefferson, etc. 0 respect for the Dolphins drafting ability

JohnHoodNC: Today's wisdom from Jonathan Swift: “It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.”

InfluencebyD: Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift

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wizeinsbot: It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift

awad: Today's word is yahoo. For noun: After Yahoos, a race of brutish creatures in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". Earliest documented use: 1751. For interjection: Apparently of echoic origin. Earliest documented use: 1976.

dr_rynn: Jonathan Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson), reunited here. Video a bit too long for twitter.

Histra1111: Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ~ Jonathan Swift. 1667 - 1745

MichaelToole: I believe Jonathan Clements wrote in his book (schoolgirl milky crisis) that he once received a translation offer from Tokyopop, and threw back a swift NO THANKS when he did the math and realized it would pay less than the US minimum wage.

_quote_everyday: There is no absolute success in the world, only constant progress. -Jonathan Swift

welfordwrites: We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift

CalmSpiritual: Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. - Jonathan Swift

Kronykal: “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” - Jonathan Swift

Tony__Heller: “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." ― Jonathan Swift

NicRighetti: “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect” (Jonathan Swift)

zidrees560: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." -Jonathan Swift

_nilasa_: "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others". ~ Jonathan Swift

qikipedia: In 1722, Jonathan Swift published a pamphlet titled ‘The Benefit of Farting Explained’, in which he jokingly argued that bad moods in women are due to suppressed flatulence.

_quote_everyday: Health is the greatest of all possessions. -Jonathan Swift

readerpreneur_: "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others." - Jonathan Swift

hoeworking: if you haven't read Gulliver's Travels, and I do not mean the small CBSE version. I refer to The unabridged Jonathan Swift orginal, then you have never witnessed creativity at its finest.

threexco: Civilization’s Swift Move: "Certain men of civilization (and not women), devoid of the slightest sensitivity to human psychology, are planning to export our human psyches to other locations in the solar system."

themalacast: Covid is kind of a throwback: Pretty much all of human history was living in fear of communicable disease. Jonathan Swift got syphilis, according to him, from unwashed bedsheets when he was out of town. Orwell died of TB. But then again, who didn't? 1/2

KevinFroleiks: COMICS: I love satire! ME: You mean like the works of Jonathan Swift? COMICS: No I mean more like when Patrice would make fun of women lol KING

CerebralWisdom: Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired... - Jonathan Swift

Tony__Heller: “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” ― Jonathan Swift

JohnHoodNC: Today's wisdom from Jonathan Swift: “Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.”

creativeblocker: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. (Jonathan Swift )

essers: Dr Jonathan Swift has a neat idea:

IrishAmericaMus: Artist J.B. Yeats, broadcaster Ray D’Arcy, former President Mary Robinson, author Bram Stoker, poet Oscar Wilde and Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, have all walked Trinity’s hallowed halls.

SleeperHQ: Here are the current ADP's in dynasty for the seven rookie RBs who balled out last year. Jonathan Taylor (ADP 4.9) CEH (8.5) D'Andre Swift (11) JK Dobbins (13.9) Cam Akers (29) Antonio Gibson (33) James Robinson (38) Who's going too high, who's going too low?

JohnHoodNC: Today's wisdom from Jonathan Swift: “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

OPTASEeyes: “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” - Jonathan Swift

angryafbot: It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift

crappyliving: Reminding myself that people on here mostly mean Taylor Swift not Jonathan Swift which when you think about it should have been obvious to me for a while now

BonnieKParker1: In the spirit of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," let's build a fence around Texas. Oh & maybe Florida, too.

TrueQuotation: I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. — Jonathan Swift

stewartcbaker: This is a really cool read about interactive fiction, feminist game design, and Jonathan Swift's poem The Lady's Dressing Room:

awad: Today's word is Laputan, after Laputa, a floating island in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). Earliest documented use: 1866. Learn more at:

Helidonkey: 5 of 5 stars to Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

chantedx: “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” ― Jonathan Swift

EasyBlackjack: I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects (1728)

quotebotproject: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. -- By Jonathan Swift

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