Jonathan Swift Quotes About Life
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Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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