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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
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.
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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
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How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
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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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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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