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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.
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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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A lie is an excuse guarded
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
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I am of the level with common Astrologers who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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