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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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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Opinion Journalist
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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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.
Jonathan Swift
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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My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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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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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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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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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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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
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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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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
Jonathan Swift
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
Jonathan Swift
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift
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.
Jonathan Swift
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
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