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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
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Dublin city
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M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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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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