Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift
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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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- Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
- Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
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