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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

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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
Thoroughly
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Onions

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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire I was the Third of five Sons.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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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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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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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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