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She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
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
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Priest
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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A fig for your bill of fare show me your bill of company.
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A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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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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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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