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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

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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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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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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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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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