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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
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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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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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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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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
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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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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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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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He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
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