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Quote by Jonathan Swift
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – Jonathan Swift

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Age
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Jonathan Swift
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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strength
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Jonathan Swift
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Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled. – Author unknown

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Weather

It is beautiful when it rains far away in the distance, the bright sun shining on the mound on which you stand, and only a few guerilla drops heralding the approach of the shower towards you. – John Richard Vernon, “The Beauty of Rain,” 1863

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Weather

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. – Arnot Sheppard

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Weather

It was so cold I almost got married. – Shelley Winters

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Weather

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I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. – From the television show The Wonder Years

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Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one. – Terri Guillemets

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