It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed … - Jonathan Swift - Quotesmemo.com

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It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

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Jonathan Swift

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

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