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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
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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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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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile esteem without love is languid and cold.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
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I row after health like a waterman.
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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Big-endians and small-endians.
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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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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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