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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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
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Butter
Quarrels
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I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
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So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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I am of the level with common Astrologers who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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