It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. (Jonathan Swift)

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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