One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
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BETTY WILSON I want to show you peace is peace and everything will go well.
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We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Never sleeping, still awake,
Pleasing most when most I speak;
The delight of old and young,
...
JONATHAN SWIFT