Birth Quote by Jonathan Swift

“I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.” quote by Jonathan Swift — Download Open image

“I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.”

Jonathan Swift

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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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