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Author: Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration.
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels Into
My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern,
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels Into
I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned,
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels Into
frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
When I gave that free censure of the country and its inhabitants, he made no further answer than by telling me, "that I had not been long enough among them to form a judgment; and that the different nations of the world had different customs;
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It
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Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels
He put this engine {a silver pocket watch} into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, {if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly} that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life."
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