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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right She may then grow wise for spite.
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I am of the level with common Astrologers who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Big-endians and small-endians.
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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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