"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."

Controversy, Truth, Observation, Wisdom, Power

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"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."

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"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."

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Explore more quotes by Jonathan Swift

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

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"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."

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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

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"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."

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"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

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"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not."

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