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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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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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