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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
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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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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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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