“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
Quote by Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, and died on October 19, 1745, was an Irish writer, satirist, and politician, renowned for his satirical works. more
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Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.”
Source: A Modest Proposal and Other Prose
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“Opposition is true friendship.”
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“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake