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Famous Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Famous quotes made by Jonathan Swift, the Irish priest, satirist and poet. He was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. He is probably best known for writing 'Gulliver's Travels'. Jonathan Swift died on October 19, 1745.

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May you live all the days of your life.

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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