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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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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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You must take the will for the deed.
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. Future ages shall talk of this they shall be famous to all posterity whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
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In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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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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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile esteem without love is languid and cold.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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