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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

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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Snow-flakes! Yes, it is true, in accordance with the child-thought, you come floating so gently down from Heaven as if afraid of hurting the wintry earth…. Ye gentle, fleecy things!… Snow-flakes! – A.S. Macduff, “The Message of the Snow-Flakes,” in The Sunday Magazine (London),

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When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. – Author unknown

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. – George Bernard Shaw

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. – Wayne Dyer

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