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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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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Opinion Journalist
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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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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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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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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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
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