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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
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I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
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There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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