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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.
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A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
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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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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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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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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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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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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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