Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

Jonathan Swift
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1860). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.347
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