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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Human Rights Activist
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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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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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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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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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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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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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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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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