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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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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist
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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
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