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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
Invisible
Vision
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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
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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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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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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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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist
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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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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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A college joke to cure the dumps.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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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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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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