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Quote by Jonathan Swift
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a lit

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift

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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The soul of Antony was fastidious, and he disdained a slovenly appearance. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

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You are only what you are when no one is looking. – Robert C. Edwards

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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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