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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Human Rights Activist
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Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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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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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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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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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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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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I am of the level with common Astrologers who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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