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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
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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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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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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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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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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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
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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 proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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