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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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I row after health like a waterman.
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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