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Schriftsteller, Satiriker, "Gullivers Reisen" (England, 1667 - 1745).

Jonathan Swift · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Jonathan Swift wäre heute 357 Jahre, 4 Monate, 5 Tage oder 130.517 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.11.1667 in Dublin
Gestorben am 19.10.1745 in Dublin
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• Witz ohne Wissen ist ein Rahm, der über Nacht nach oben steigt und sich von geschickter Hand leicht zu Schaum schlagen läßt. Wenn er aber einmal abgeschäumt ist, dann taugt der Rückstand nur mehr als Schweinefutter.
  • Bildung - Lernen - Wissen
  • Nacht

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• Wo ein Genie auftaucht, verbrüdern sich die Dummköpfe.
  • Genie

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• Zum Segen des Glücks bekennen sich nur die Unglücklichen; die Glücklichen führen alle ihre Erfolge auf Klugheit und Tüchtigkeit zurück.
  • Klugheit

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• 'Libertas et natale solum': Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

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• 'Tis an old maxim in the schools that flattery is the food of fools. Yet now and then your men of wit will condescend to take a bit.

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• A coming shower your shooting corns presage.

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• A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer.

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• A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

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

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• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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• Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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• An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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• And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

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• Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

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• As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

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• Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

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• Books, the children of the brain.

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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

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• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

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• Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.

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