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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
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Priest
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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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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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.
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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
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I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
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Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
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