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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

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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Weather
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Jonathan Swift
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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. – Alexander McCall Smith

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Age

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. – Johan Huizinga

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Age

My husband gave me a necklace. Its fake. I requested fake. Maybe Im paranoid, but in this day and age, I dont want something around my neck thats worth more than my head. – Rita Rudner

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Age

Age is just a number. Mine is unlisted. – Author Unknown

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Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him. – Bible

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. – Andre Gide

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. – Joseph Campbell

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