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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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