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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the pro

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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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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Jonathan Swift
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he cant get on with them. – Rosamond Lehman

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Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how its improved her French. – Harry Graham

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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me — I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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