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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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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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Jonathan Swift
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e.e. cummings

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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. – Buddha

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton

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