"So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
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“Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.”
“Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.”
“A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.”
More on Geography
“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”
“Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”
“Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.”
More on Knowledge
“The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.”
“It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.”
“no people can be both ignorant and free.”