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Jonathan Swift

"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

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"A reader knows the mind of sacred souls."

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"Often morality defines our inner philosophy."

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"Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience."

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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
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