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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
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For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
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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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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
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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 the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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