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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
- I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
- Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
- Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
- 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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