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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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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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