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

Jonathan Swift · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Jonathan Swift wäre heute 357 Jahre, 5 Monate, 6 Tage oder 130.549 Tage alt.

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

• Dreams are mere productions of the brain, And fools consult interpreters in vain.

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• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

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• Every smile increases the happiness on earth.

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• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

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• Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

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• Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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• For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

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• Good God! what a genius I had when I wrote that book.

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• Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

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• Hated by fools, and fools to hate, Be that my motto and my fate.

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• He [the emperor] is taller by almost the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.

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• He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; And showed, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.

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• He gives directions to the town, To cry it up, or run it down.

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• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

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• He put this engine [a watch] to our ears, which made an incessant noise like that of a water-mill; and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion.

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• He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.).

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• He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine with him; poh, said I, I value not your bill of fare, give me your bill of company.

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• He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

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• He was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

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