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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  1. May you live every day of your life.

  2. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

  3. The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

  4. That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

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