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Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is also well known for his poetry and essays. He also used the name Isaac Bickerstaff among other pseudonyms. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Swift, Jonathan.
Swift, Jonathan on Death and Dying
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"We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same."
Swift, Jonathan on Disease
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"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
Swift, Jonathan on Doctors
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"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk."
Swift, Jonathan on Dress
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"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."
Swift, Jonathan on Enemies
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"Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to."
Swift, Jonathan on Exaggeration
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"Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires."
Swift, Jonathan on Friends and Friendship
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"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
Swift, Jonathan on Age and Aging
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"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
Swift, Jonathan on Age and Aging
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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
Swift, Jonathan on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter."
Swift, Jonathan on Anecdotes
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"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."
Swift, Jonathan on Greatness
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"Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."
Swift, Jonathan on Happiness
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"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."
Swift, Jonathan on Heaven
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"What some people invent the rest enlarge."
Swift, Jonathan on Humor
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"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
Swift, Jonathan on Invention and Inventor
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"All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits."
Swift, Jonathan on Jokes and Jokers
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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
Swift, Jonathan on Kisses and Kissing
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"Come, agree, the law's costly."
Swift, Jonathan on Law Suits
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"May you live all the days of your life."
Swift, Jonathan on Life and Living
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"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
Swift, Jonathan on Love
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"Observation is an old man's memory."
Swift, Jonathan on Memory
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"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
Swift, Jonathan on Men
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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
Swift, Jonathan on Mistakes
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"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
Swift, Jonathan on Money
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Swift, Jonathan on Nations
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"Don't set your wit against a child."
Swift, Jonathan on Parents and Parenting
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