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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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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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Hail fellow, well met.
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An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
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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.
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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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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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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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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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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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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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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
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