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Jonathan Swift Quotes
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift
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Writer Quotes
Category:
Irish Writer Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 30
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1667
Date of Death:
October 19
,
1745
Nationality:
Irish
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Select Jonathan Swift Quotations:
May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
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