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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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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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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – Jonathan Swift

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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. – Jack Black

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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. – Thomas Francis Meagher

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. – T. S. Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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