Irish - Writer | November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his 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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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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