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Jonathan swift was born in ireland during november of 1667. His father died before he was born, and his mother left him in the care of relatives. He went on to attend Trinity College in dublin, he was not a great student. It was in the very late sixteen hundreds that he kicked off his writing career with a Tale of a Tub. In 1710, swift had trouble with the whigs and allied with the tories. He became editor of the tory newspaper The Examiner.  Swift's mind slowly fell into the depths of menieres disease and eventually died in 1745.

Samuel Johnson on Jonathan Swift
"His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are never subtilised by nice disquisitions, decorated by sparkling conceits, elevated by ambitious sentences, or variegated by far sought learning. he pays no court to the passions; he excites neither surprise nor admiration; he always understands himself, and his readers always understand him"

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be dissapointed."- jonathan swift

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."- jonathan swift

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