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• I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec
• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
  -- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chai
  Awake but one, and lo, what myriads arise! Each stamps its image as the other flies....
• Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain the riches he can ne'er enjoy.
  -- Alexander Pope...
• Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Ode on Solitude...