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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
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
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Poppy
Mingled
Poppies
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Infusion
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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A footman may swear but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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The more careless, the more modish.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
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