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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.

Jonathan Swift

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Jonathan Swift

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.

Jonathan Swift

Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.

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Violence Quote

Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

- Obafemi Awolowo

Life Quote

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

- Publilius Syrus

Love Quote

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

- Anonymous

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

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