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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
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Onions
Thoroughly
Boiled
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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
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Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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