Jonathan Swift's Quote - He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out

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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

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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. – Jonathan Swift

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift

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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

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