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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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
Poet
Priest
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
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Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
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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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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 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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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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