I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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About Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

—Jonathan Swift

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

—Jonathan Swift

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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

—Jonathan Swift

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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

—Jonathan Swift

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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

—Jonathan Swift

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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

—John Keats

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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I didn't forget you. To this day, I have yet to walk through an airport without looking for your face, and every time it snows, I remember what it felt like to kiss you.

—Sharon Sala in Second Chances

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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

—Ingrid Bergman

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It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.