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Firsts Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
- Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing…
- 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…
- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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