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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Dublin city
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Lemuel Gulliver
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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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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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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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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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