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Jonathan Swift
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Jonathan Swift?
→ A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
→ In the marriage union the independence of the husband and the wife should be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
→ Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
→ Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
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Pick the quote attributed to Jonathan Swift.
→ Never was anything great achieved without danger.
→ One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
→ Big results require big ambitions.
→ We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Select the quotation attributed to Jonathan Swift.
→ Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
→ A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
→ Woe be to him that reads but one book.
→ Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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One of these may be attributed to Jonathan Swift. Which one?
→ Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
→ Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
→ It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
→ Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Which one of these belongs to Jonathan Swift?
→ Ability is of little account without opportunity.
→ As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
→ The best things carried to excess are wrong.
→ It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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