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Schriftsteller, Satiriker, "Gullivers Reisen" (England, 1667 - 1745).

Jonathan Swift · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Jonathan Swift wäre heute 356 Jahre, 5 Monate, 4 Tage oder 130.182 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.11.1667 in Dublin
Gestorben am 19.10.1745 in Dublin
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• The reasons why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

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• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

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• Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

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• There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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• There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

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• These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

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• They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.

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• Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

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• Vision - The art of seeing things invisible.

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• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

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• Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

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• War! that mad game the world so loves to play.

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• We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

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

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• We were to do more business after dinner; but after dinner is after dinner-an old saying and a true, 'much drinking, little thinking'.

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• What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

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• What though his head be empty, provided his commonplace book be full.

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

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• When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

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• Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart.

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