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“ Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age. ”

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May you live every day of your life.

~ Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift Inspirational Life Philosophy Wisdom

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

~ Jonathan Swift

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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

~ Jonathan Swift

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Books, the children of the brain.

~ Jonathan Swift

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