You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you p… - Jonathan Swift

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You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

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

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todas as terras que um súdito descobre, pertencem, de direito, à coroa.

So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bit 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. - Jonathan Swift

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