“The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”

— Jonathan Swift

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

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