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The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Book by Jonathan Swift · 4 quotes · Men, Ifs, Giving

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“Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.”