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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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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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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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