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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
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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
Poet
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. Future ages shall talk of this they shall be famous to all posterity whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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