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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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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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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
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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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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
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Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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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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