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Jonathan Swift Quotes: Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
         

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.


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