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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
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
Jonathan Swift
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Jonathan Swift
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
Jonathan Swift
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
Jonathan Swift
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Jonathan Swift
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
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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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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Jonathan Swift
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.
Jonathan Swift
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
Jonathan Swift
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift
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.
Jonathan Swift
111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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