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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
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I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
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The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
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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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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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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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A fig for your bill of fare show me your bill of company.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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