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While Nature, kindly bent ... JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him. JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p... JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit... JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is... JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention. JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ... JONATHAN SWIFT