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Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
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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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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Hail fellow, well met.
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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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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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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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