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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.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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