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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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Dublin city
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Lemuel Gulliver
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.
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My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire I was the Third of five Sons.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
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Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right She may then grow wise for spite.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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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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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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