Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or generation:
“Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
Threat’ning with deluge this devoted town.
To shops in crowds the daggled females fly,
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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