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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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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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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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She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.
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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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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
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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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With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Big-endians and small-endians.
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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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