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01c. 1703 AD

Pity 's akin to love.

Thomas Southerne / quote

02c. 1703 AD

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.

Thomas Southerne / quote

03c. 1702 AD

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

Richard Bentley / quote

04c. 1702 AD

"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

Richard Bentley / quote

05c. 1702 AD

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.

Richard Bentley / quote

06c. 1703 AD

God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king!

Henry Carey / quote

07c. 1703 AD

Aldeborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?

Henry Carey / quote

08c. 1703 AD

His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation.

Henry Carey / quote

09c. 1703 AD

Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation out-vociferize Even sound itself.

Henry Carey / quote

10c. 1703 AD

To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.

Henry Carey / quote

11c. 1703 AD

Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"

Henry Carey / quote

12c. 1703 AD

Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free.

Henry Carey / quote

13c. 1703 AD

What a monstrous tail our cat has got!

Henry Carey / quote

14c. 1703 AD

Of all the girls that are so smart, There 's none like pretty Sally.

Henry Carey / quote

15c. 1703 AD

Of all the days that 's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday.

Henry Carey / quote

16c. 1706 AD

I 've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

Jonathan Swift / quote

17c. 1706 AD

So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.

Jonathan Swift / quote

18c. 1706 AD

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Jonathan Swift / quote

19c. 1706 AD

Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

Jonathan Swift / quote

20c. 1706 AD

So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum.

Jonathan Swift / quote

21c. 1706 AD

Libertas et natale solum: Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

Jonathan Swift / quote

22c. 1706 AD

A college joke to cure the dumps.

Jonathan Swift / quote

23c. 1706 AD

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Jonathan Swift / quote

24c. 1706 AD

Hail fellow, well met.

Jonathan Swift / quote