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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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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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You must take the will for the deed.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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Tis nothing when you are used to it.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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