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Date: 1704
"Remark your commonest pretender to a light within, how dark, and dirty, and gloomy he is without; as lanterns which, the more light they bear in their bodies, cast out so much the more soot and smoke and fuliginous matter to adhere to the sides."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: May 10, 1704
"Besides, there is something individual in human minds that easily kindles at the accidental approach and collision of certain circumstances, which, though of paltry and mean appearance, do often flame out into the greatest emergencies of life."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
