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Jonathan Swift

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He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
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On the Emperor of Lilliput, in Voyage to Lilliput, Ch. 2

 
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You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall - and the failure to nail current jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.

 
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Eurythmy is beauty and fitness in the adjustments of the members. This is found when the members of a work are of a height suited to their breadth, of a breadth suited to their length, and, in a word, when they all correspond symmetrically.

 
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

 
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