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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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