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Jonathan Swift on Birthday

1667–1745 Ireland

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4 quotes

I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Polite Conversation (1738)

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying,
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.

I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.

Polite Conversation (1738)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Swift (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.