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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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Woman
Everyone
Father
Good
Like
Kissed
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Cows

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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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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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