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Jonathan Swift Quotes: We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
         

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.


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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
         



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