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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
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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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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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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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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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