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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

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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power
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Jonathan Swift
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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

Category:
Carpe Diem
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? – Oliver Goldsmith

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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. – Andrea Dworkin

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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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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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Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police. – Theresa May

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

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