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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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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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A lie is an excuse guarded
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