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Jonathan Swift Quotes: Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
         

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.


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