Jonathan Swift — "The two most important things in life are good friends and a good chamber pot."
The two most important things in life are good friends and a good chamber pot.
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"Argument is the worst enemy of truth."
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."
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About Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Anglo-Irish satirist and Dean of Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral whose Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) are the canonical English-language satires. Closely associated with Alexander Pope (Scriblerus Club poet and collaborator) and John Gay (Beggar's Opera author and satirical contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Daniel Defoe, English Whig journalist and Robinson Crusoe author (1660-1731) — Defoe's Crusoe (1719) celebrates Enlightenment self-reliance and the colonial-mercantile project; Swift's Gulliver (1726) systematically dismantles every form of human pretension Defoe celebrated. The cleanest Augustan Whig-vs-Tory literary pairing — optimistic-empirical vs misanthropic-satirical.
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Often attributed, but difficult to pinpoint exact source, likely from letters or table talk, perhaps apocryphal.
Date: 18th Century
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