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Jonathan Swift Quotes:

Ocupation: Pamphleteer

Life: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

Birthday: November 30

Death: October 19

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.194

topic: Wise, Science, Astrology, Pretence, Foretelling

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