No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. (Jonathan Swift)

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Jonathan Swift

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