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Books, the children of the brain.
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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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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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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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile esteem without love is languid and cold.
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