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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
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
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Opinion Journalist
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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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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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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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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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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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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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
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