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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
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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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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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