It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so univer…

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, Sir Walter Scott (1824). Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous, p.56
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