The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description.
Gulliver's Travels
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description.
Gulliver's Travels
A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
1709
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"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."
Shocking"It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."
Controversial"The commonest things are the most useful."
Controversial"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
Strange & Unusual"The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."
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