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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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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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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
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... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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The more careless, the more modish.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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