Jonathan Swift
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1841). The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe, p.98

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