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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
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Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
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This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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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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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
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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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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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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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I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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