Jonathan Swift

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.


— Jonathan Swift


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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.


— Jonathan Swift


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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.


— Jonathan Swift


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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.


— Jonathan Swift


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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.


— Jonathan Swift


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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.


— Jonathan Swift


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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.


— Jonathan Swift


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No wise man ever wished to be younger.


— Jonathan Swift


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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.


— Jonathan Swift


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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.


— Jonathan Swift


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He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language[dubious – discuss] and is less well known for his poetry. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irishsatirist essayist political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs then for the Tories) poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin.