“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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Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
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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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“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
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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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“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.”
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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
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“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
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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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“Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”
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“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
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