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
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together
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When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
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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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Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad
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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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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.