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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
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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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
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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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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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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
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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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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
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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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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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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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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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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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