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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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Opinion Journalist
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Dublin city
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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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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How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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