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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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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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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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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
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My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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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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