Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never findin…

Jonathan Swift
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). The Works of Jonathan Swift: Riddles [and poems] by Dr. Swift and his friends. Verses addressed to Swift and to his memory. Epistolary correspondence, p.25
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