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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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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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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
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My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire I was the Third of five Sons.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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Tis nothing when you are used to it.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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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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