As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

—Jonathan Swift

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About Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the...

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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

—Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

—Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

—Jonathan Swift

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

—Jonathan Swift

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift

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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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