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Quote by Jonathan Swift
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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Man proposes, woman forecloses. – Minna Antrim

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Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. – John H. Aughey

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