An Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet.. Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer poet and cleric
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Articles about Jonathan Swift or articles that mention Jonathan Swift.
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Go to Quote / Comment
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. Go to Quote / Comment
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. Go to Quote / Comment
No wise man ever wished to be younger. Go to Quote / Comment
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Go to Quote / Comment
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