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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
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• Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

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• How haughtily he lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

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• How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

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• Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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• Humour is odd, grotesque, and wild, Only by affectation spoiled; 'Tis never by invention got, Men have it when they know it not.

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• I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

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• I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

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• I conceive some scattered notions about a superior power to be of singular use for the common people, as furnishing excellent materials to keep children quiet when they grow peevish, and providing topics of amusement in a tedious winter-night.

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions and communities, and all my love is towards individuals . . . But principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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• I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.

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• I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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• I mean, you lie-under a mistake.

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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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• I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.

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• I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.

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• I told him . . . that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.

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• If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.

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• If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

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• If we take an examintation of what is understood by happiness . . . we shall find all its properties . . . under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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