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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
Essayist
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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A footman may swear but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
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