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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

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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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. – Jonathan Swift

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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just dont have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I cant obsess about it. – Sienna Miller

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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. – Edmond de Goncourt

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The age of a woman doesnt mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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