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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
Faith
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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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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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.
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What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
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A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
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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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Hail fellow, well met.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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