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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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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Philosopher
Poet
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire I was the Third of five Sons.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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