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Jonathan Swift
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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
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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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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