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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

English writer

Lived from: 1667 - 1745

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 november 1667 Died: 19 october 1745

  • A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
  • 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.
  • One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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  • Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
    ― Jonathan Swift
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  • Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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