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Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. Future ages shall talk of this they shall be famous to all posterity whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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