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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
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
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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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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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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Big-endians and small-endians.
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For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know 'Tis only infinite below.
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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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