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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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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – Jonathan Swift

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

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The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. – Lama Willa Miller

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Bad weather always looks worse through a window. – Author unknown

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