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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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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
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right She may then grow wise for spite.
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One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
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