The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Gulliver's Travels
Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders
1721
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"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
Humorous"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."
Controversial"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."
Strange & Unusual"Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken."
Humorous"If a man would do good, he must be able to bear evil."
Controversial