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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
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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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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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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