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• In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Men, Desire

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “Letters, Written by the Late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of His Friends: From the Year 1703-to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical”, p.117

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• Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Weed, Honesty, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (186?). “The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author”

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• Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Example, Flattery

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• We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Affection, Ailments

  'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 1 February 1711

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

  Jonathan Swift

  Acknowledge You, Yesterday, World

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• Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Reason, Riders

  Jonathan Swift (1800). “Tale of a Tub: written for the universal improvemend of mankind”, p.140

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• Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

  Jonathan Swift

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “Works”, p.443

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• Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

  Jonathan Swift

  Humor, Men, Laughing

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• Vision is seeing the invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vision, Invisible, Seeing

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• War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

  Jonathan Swift

  Military, War, Games

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.204

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Death, Evil, Dying

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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• I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Tongue, Teeth, Littles

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.336

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love Is, Community, Individual

  Letter to Alexander Pope, 29 Sept. 1725

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• A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nice, Men, Ideas

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Tis nothing when you are used to it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Used

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.89

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• It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

  Jonathan Swift

  Christian, Suffering Of Others, Bears

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• Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Philosophical, Espresso

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55

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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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Time

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• Every dog must have his day.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Dog, Bad Day

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.513

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• They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Knives, Eating

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.373

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Love Is

  Jonathan Swift (2016). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Rogues, Fiddlers

  1711 Journal to Stella, 25 July.

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Pie

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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• Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friendship, Two, Feelings

  Jonathan Swift, William Broome, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Jonathan Swift ...”, p.217

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• What poet would not grieve to see
  His brother write as well as he?
  But rather than they should excel,
  He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Brother, Writing, Grieving

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.655

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