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## Jonathan Swift quotes on nature

1. > Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

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2. > It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

[Permalink to quote \#38](https://quotesby.net/Jonathan-Swift/38/ "Permalink to quote 38")
3. > I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

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4. > Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

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