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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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Dublin city
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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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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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Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
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A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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I row after health like a waterman.
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