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Date: 1713
"The Stoical Scheme of Supplying our Wants by lopping off our Desires, is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1727
"The common Fluency of Speech in many Men, and most Women, is owing to a Scarcity of Matter, and a Scarcity of Words; for whoever is a Master of Language, and hath a Mind full of Ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the Choice of both; whereas common Speakers have only one Set of Ide...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1744
"As the body is said to clothe the soul, so the nerves may be said to constitute her inner garment."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)