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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

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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
Conceited
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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You must take the will for the deed.
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This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile esteem without love is languid and cold.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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