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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.
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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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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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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
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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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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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