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I row after health like a waterman.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know 'Tis only infinite below.
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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