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Jonathan Swift quotes

1667–1745 · Anglo-Irish satirist

The author of Gulliver's Travels was a clergyman with a savage sense of humour. He also wrote the original of the "lie travels halfway round the world" saying.

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3 quotes traced to Jonathan Swift's own work or a reliable witness.

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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Source: The Examiner (1710)

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects (1706)

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects (1706)