I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. ✨ Jonathan S…

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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1856). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author, p.336
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ✨ Jonathan Swift (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated), p.896, Delphi Classics
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1856). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author, p.336

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