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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.
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”
“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.”
“Violent zeal for truth hath an hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.”
“He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.”
“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”
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