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An Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Every dog must have his day.
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I heard the little bird say so.
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What some invent the rest enlarge.
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May you live every day of your life.
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There was all the world and his wife.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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Possession they say is eleven points of the law.
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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
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There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart.
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We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
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They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
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111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
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I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
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Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.
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The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.
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Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
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Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
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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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For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
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Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
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When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
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Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said 'She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama.' When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.