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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
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
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