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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

~Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

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Books, the children of the brain.

~Jonathan Swift

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: November 30th, 1667

Died: October 19th, 1745

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