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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Jonathan Swift
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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
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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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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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
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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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hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
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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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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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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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