Jonathan Swift

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• We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

  Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

  • Religion

• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

  A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)

  • Laws

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

  Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

  • Genius

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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