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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Lemuel Gulliver
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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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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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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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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
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