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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift

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

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A gentleman doesnt pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. – Quentin Crisp

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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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