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Jonathan Swift Quotes: Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
         

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.


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