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Quote by Jonathan Swift
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so un

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. – Jonathan Swift

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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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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. – Jonathan Swift

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Death is a debt we all must pay. – Euripides

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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Im Irish. I think about death all the time. – Jack Nicholson

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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. – Jean Paul

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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. – Thomas Becket

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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. – Rudolph Valentino

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