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Jonathan Swift

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An Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet.. Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer poet and cleric


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Quote Left It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into Quote Right
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Quote Left There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy. Quote Right
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Quote Left She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. Quote Right
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Quote Left And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole Quote Right
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Quote Left In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things