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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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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
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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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