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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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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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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
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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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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
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