No wise man ever wished to be younger. ✨ Thoughts on Various Subjects,…

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No wise man ever wished to be younger. ✨ Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
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Every dog must have his day. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1860). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.513
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ✨ Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (186?). The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, … ▶
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do mor … ▶
A carpenter is known by his chips. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). Poems, Polite convesation, etc, p.344

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