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Big-endians and small-endians.
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
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
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Lemuel Gulliver
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Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist
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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
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You must take the will for the deed.
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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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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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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