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Ends Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my…
- It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
- In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please…
- Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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