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There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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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
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Life

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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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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Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
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An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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