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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
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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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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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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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
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He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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