Common Quote by Jonathan Swift

“That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.” quote by Jonathan Swift — Download Open image

“That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.”

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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

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May you live every day of your life.

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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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