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The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism

by Jonathan Swift

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“Nothing dries more quickly than a tear”
― Apollonius of Rhodes

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“A working woman, rising before dawn to spin and needing light in her cottage room, piles brushwood on a smoldering log, and the whole heap kindled by the little brand goes up in a mighty blaze. Such was the fire of Love, stealthy but all-consuming, that swept through Medea's heart. In the turmoil of her soul, her soft cheeks turned from rose to white and white to rose.”
― Appolonius Rhodius, Jason and the Golden Fleece

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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