Those who are more thrifty may flay the carcass, the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentleman.
Gulliver's Travels
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"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."
Humorous"I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt."
Controversial"The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world."
Strange & Unusual"The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that a wise man knows he is a fool, and a fool thinks he is wise."
Humorous"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."
Strange & Unusual