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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
Religion

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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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A footman may swear but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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