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I row after health like a waterman.

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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
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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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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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