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Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad. (Jonathan Swift)
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person. View quote
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'T is nothing when you are used to it. View quote
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I have now lost my barrier between me and death God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there. View quote
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Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while And then act our part in it. View quote
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In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal art. View quote
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Satire, by being leveled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. View quote
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But you think... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. View quote
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War that mad game the world so loves to play. View quote
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the first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often so mean and so little, that in decency they ought to be hid... View quote
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When somebody was telling a certain great minister that people were discontented; "Pho, said he, half a dozen fools are prating in a coffeehouse, and presently think their own noise about their ears is made by the world." (Jonathan Swift)
Superstition is the spleen of the soul. View quote
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... archbishop [Boulter] charged the Dean with inflaming the mob, "I inflame them?" retorted Swift," were I to lift but a finger, they would tear you to pieces." View quote
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ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. Xerxes wept when he beheld his Army, to consider that in less than a Hundred Years they would be all Dead. Anacreon was' Choakt with a Grape-stone, and violent Joy Kills as well as violent Grief. There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy; yet Plato thought that if Virtue would appear to the World in her own native Dress, all Men would be Enamoured with her. But now since Interest governs the World, and Men neglect the Golden Mean, Jupiter himself, if he came on the Earth would be Despised, unless it were as he did to Danae in a Golden Shower. For Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting. View quote
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Jonathan Swift

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Occupation: Anglo-Irish Writer
Born: November 30, 1667
Died: October 19, 1745
Quotes count: 264
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