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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
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Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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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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How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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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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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
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An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
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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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