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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Nine quotes by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
 Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. 
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 Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. 
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 He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 
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 Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act out our part in it. 
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 May you live all the days of your life. 
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 No wise man ever wished to be younger. 
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 The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. 
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 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. 
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 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. 
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