Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he … - Jonathan Swift

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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist. Acclaimed as one of the finest prose satirists in the English language, he was also well known for his poetry and essays.

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Alternative Names: Isaac Bickerstaff • M. B. Drapier • Lemuel Gulliver • Simon Wagstaff

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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shapes our minds delude … are mere productions of the brain.
And fools consult interpreters in vain.

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.

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. - Jonathan Swift

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