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Jonathan Swift
1667-1745
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1704
Tale of the Tub(1696 – 1697) Battle of the Books
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«Сказка Бочки» (обложка пятого издания) и иллюстрация к «Битве книг».
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I am now trying an experiment very frequent among modern authors; which is to write upon Nothing; when the subject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on; by some called the ghost of Wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body. -- Conclusion, A Tale of A Tub And to say the truth, there seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands, than that of discerning when to have done. -- Conclusion, A Tale of A Tub ... I am wonderfully well acquainted with the present relish of courteous readers, and have often observed with singular pleasure, that a fly driven from a honey-pot will immediately, with very good appetite, alight and finish his meal on an excrement. -- Conclusion, A Tale of a Tub
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Every Man desires to live long; but no Man would be old
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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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I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils, governed by foolish servants
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She pays him in his own coin. There was all the world and his wife. Bread is the staff of life
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another
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Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or AEneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman Better belly burst than good liquor be lost
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1726
Gulliver's Travels Travels into Several Remote Nations of the Worldby Lemuel Gulliver http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html
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Part I: A Voyage To Lilliput (1699 —1702) Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (1702 –1706) Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan (1706 – 1710) Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms (1710 – 1715)
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And my Master thought it monstrous in us to give the Females a different kind of Education from the Males, except in some Articles of Domestic Management; whereby, as he truly observed, one half of our Natives were good for nothing but bringing Children into the World: And to trust the Care of our Children to such useless Animals, he said, was yet a greater Instance of Brutality. (IV:8)
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