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

~Jonathan Swift

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May you live all the days of your life.

~Jonathan Swift

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

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Every dog must have his day.

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

~Jonathan Swift

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: November 30th, 1667

Died: October 19th, 1745

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