Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
inspirational children book
Books, the children of the brain.
nurse miracle age
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
drinking bottles literature
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
syllables
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
writing light rising
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
alcohol liquor lost
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
good-morning good-day greatness
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
world this-world inconsistency
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
government slavery definitions
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
men evil guilt
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
country race vegetables
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.
acceptance men religion
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
style literature definitions
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.