Sight-Seeing: Melania’s robotic “modest proposal”. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SightSeeing #MelaniaTrump #AI #robots #JonathanSwift #GulliversTravels
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“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” --Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) From “The Examiner,” 1710 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #JonathanSwift The saying captures how quickly falsehood spreads compared with truth. Lies are often simpler, more dramatic, and easier to repeat, so they move fast through conversation, rumor, and media. Truth usually takes longer because it must be checked, explained, and supported. That imbalance gives deception a head start, which is why even absurd claims can race through the world before facts have a chance to catch up. At a deeper level, the quote is not just about dishonesty but about human nature. People are often drawn to stories that flatter their fears, biases, or excitement, while truth can be slower, less glamorous, and more inconvenient. The line endures because it describes a frustrating reality that keeps repeating across generations: falsehood has speed, but truth has the harder job of proving itself. The above quote is commonly misattributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others as: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Variants with “shoes,” “boots,” or “halfway around the world” appeared much later, including newspaper and memoir versions in the 20th century.
“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.”
--Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
From “The Examiner,” 1710
#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #JonathanSwift
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
(賢者は、お金を頭の中に置くが、心の中には入れない。)
#JonathanSwift #Quotes
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A first edition of Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal” to control poverty by eating Irish children is posed on a china place setting with silverware in a display case at Marsh’s Library, Dublin, Ireland.
Mad props to the twisted minds at @marshslibrary.bsky.social, Dublin, Ireland, for this display:
#modestproposals
#jonathanswift
#libraries
#librarians
#twistedminds
#darkhumour
#cannibalism
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
（賢い人はお金を頭（知識）の中に置くが、心（欲望）の中には置かない。）
#JonathanSwift #名言 #富豪の金言 #wealthy_wisdom
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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible”—Jonathan Swift
SONG OF THE WEEK: “The Sleeping Giant of Love” johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/the-sl...
#SleepingGiant #GulliversTravels #JonathanSwift #Lilliput #davidbowie #splitenz #neilfinn #denniswilson #johnnyjblair
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#AlanBennett on death makes me think of #JonathanSwift Verses on the Death of Dr
Swift It’s extremely funny.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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After analysing thousands of my posts AI just compared my approach to historical satirists like #JonathanSwift & #MarkTwain, I can live with that comparison 😉
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Discover 10 surprising coincidences in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/coincidences ( #coincidence, #shipwreck, #JFK, #AbrahamLincoln, #AbeLincoln, #JohnFKennedy, #MarkTwain, #unsinkable, #JonathanSwift, #GulliversTravels, #reunited, #prediction)
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Good morning and visionary Thursday!
What vision could bring more value to your week?
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
#JonathanSwift
Vision reveals hidden value. 🔮
#ThoughtfulThursday #FutureVision #AddValue #VargasAndVargasInsurance #DorchesterMA #NeponsetRiver
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✍🏻 A. Ömer Türkeş yazdı:
Bir çocuk kitabı sanıldı. Ama aslında insanlığa yazılmış bir suçlamaydı.
🔗 Yazının tamamı için sanatatak.com/kitap/gulliv...
#gulliveringezileri #jonathanswift #hiciv #dünyaklasikleri #klasikedebiyat #sanatatak
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”Gulliver’s Travels” (1996) is based on Anglo-Irish cleric and writer Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel of the same name. You can read it for free here (archive.org/details/gull...) and listen to a free audiobook here (archive.org/details/gull...)
#MusComEnt #GulliversTravels1996 #JonathanSwift
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#JackBlack traveled to the island of Lilliput 15 years ago when #GulliversTravels opened on December 25th, 2010 #JasonSegel #EmilyBlunt #AmandaPeet #BillyConnolly #ChrisODowd #TJMiller #JamesCorden #CatherineTate #RobLetterman #JonathanSwift
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Do they cover how that "takeoff" is reflected in #ErhardWeigel, #Cortez, #HernandoDeSoto, #Champlain and #JonathanSwift and rise of race ideas?
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!
December 5th, 1956
#JonathanSwift #GrowingYounger #cassava
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Discover 10 surprising coincidences in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/coincidences ( #coincidence, #shipwreck, #JFK, #AbrahamLincoln, #AbeLincoln, #JohnFKennedy, #MarkTwain, #unsinkable, #JonathanSwift, #GulliversTravels, #reunited, #prediction)
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Conversando un día con mi amo
se dignó a tener una galantería
y consistió en decirme que yo procedía de una familia noble
pues aventajaba con mucho a todos los yahoos..
Jonathan Swift 🇮🇪🎂
nace #30Noviembre de 1667
#FelizDomingo
#GulliversTravels
#JonathanSwift
#OtrebordmXCultura
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Happy birthday to :
#JonathanSwift “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
#MarkTwain “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
#AbbieHoffman “Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” - #JonathanSwift (born: 30 November 1667)
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"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than yesterday."
✒ #JonathanSwift, Irish author and satirist ("Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal"), was #BOTD 30 November 1667. #Literature
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#Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ #GoutBaby
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#Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ
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In 1729, Jonathan Swift published "A Modest Proposal." Although the pamphlet was published 296-years-ago, we can relate it to needless hunger in America, as the government is poised to halt SNAP and/or radically limit it. #booksky #JonathanSwift #hunger
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 28
🔗 Check my blog for more details on the titles, authors, synopses, and the list of awards:
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October28 #AlanGarner #JonathanSwift #JessieBurton #AlexandraBell #ZadieSmith #booksky
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 28
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October28 #AlanGarner #JonathanSwift #JessieBurton #AlexandraBell #ZadieSmith #booksky
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#WordFest #MythsAndLegends #Fantasy #Horror #Books #Bookstagram #RoaldDahl #Witches #JonathanSwift #GulliversTravels #HarrietPowers #Folklore #AnthonyHorowitz #Necropolis #HarryPotter #PotterHead #Halloween #Voldemort #JKRowling #Shakespeare #Tempest #Caliban #Prospero #Theatre #WheelOfTime
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Discover 10 surprising coincidences in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/coincidences ( #coincidence, #shipwreck, #JFK, #AbrahamLincoln, #AbeLincoln, #JohnFKennedy, #MarkTwain, #unsinkable, #JonathanSwift, #GulliversTravels, #reunited, #prediction)
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Jonathan Swift turns contradiction into comedy — a playful riddle wrapped in rhyme and irony.
The poet sketches a man who’s “wealthy and poor… humble and proud,” mocking vanity and pretense with razor-sharp wit.
#Poetry #Clerihew #JonathanSwift #Satire #ClassicVerse #PoemOfTheDay
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