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“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”

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Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Death

Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Religion

Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Government

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Learning