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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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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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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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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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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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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
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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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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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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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