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an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift »
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift »
Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift »
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift »
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Jonathan Swift »
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter. Jonathan Swift »
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning Jonathan Swift »
I row after health like a waterman... Jonathan Swift »
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift »
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift »
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift »
May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift »
No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift »
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Jonathan Swift »
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. Jonathan Swift »
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. Jonathan Swift »
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift »
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another. Jonathan Swift »
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift »

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