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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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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
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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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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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
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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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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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