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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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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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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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Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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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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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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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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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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I row after health like a waterman.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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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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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
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