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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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This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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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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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
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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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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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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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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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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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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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