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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

~Jonathan Swift

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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

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

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: November 30th, 1667

Died: October 19th, 1745

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