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"Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to."
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Jonathan SwiftI mean you lie—under a mistake. — Jonathan Swift
"I mean you lie—under a mistake."
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Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift 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 Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
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"I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient."
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"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because he that would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, will convince others the more, as he appears convinced himself."
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"Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
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"Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature."
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"There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate."
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