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Jonathan Swift Biography

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

Cooking, Fall, Falls, Giving, Lump, Soot

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Fool, Make, May, Men, Modesty, Sense

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Continuance, Differences, Indifferent, Long, Things, War

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

Lumber, Philosophy, School, Schools

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Age, Judging, Object, Temptation, Wine

I row after health like a waterman.

Health, Healthcare, Like, Row, Waterman

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Flattery, Invention, Knaves, Young

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shews them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

Distance, Future, Half, Proportion, Squares, Stars

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Running, Greed, Mind, Good, Desire, Side

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

Man, Men, Passion, Reason, Vices, Whole

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Circles, Down And, Employed, Hundreds, Round, World

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

Bread, Cheese, Cooking, Fare, Food, Kissing

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Age, Criticism, Genius, Know, Men

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Literature, World, Constant, Nothing, Inconstancy

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

Comfort, Distance, Men, Same

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Dog, Friendship, Funny, Heart, Lies, Steal

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Capricious, Cold, Love

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

Wise, Lying, Men, Lies, Sober

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Fool, Funny, Inspiration, Invented, Kissing, Wonder

A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

Babel, Children, Compacts, Play, Spring

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