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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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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
Polite
Cows
Conversation
Woman
Everyone
Father
Good
Like
Kissed

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Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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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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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
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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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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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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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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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