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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift
Friendship, Family, Wisdom
Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1168, Delphi Classics

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Jonathan Swift
Friendship, Two, Feelings
Jonathan Swift, William Broome, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Jonathan Swift ...”, p.217

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Jonathan Swift
Friendship, Difficult, Not Friends
Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Friendship, Dog
Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.449

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

Jonathan Swift
Friendship, Years, Age
Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.764

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