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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 3135 |
| AUTHOR: | Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) |
| QUOTATION: | He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gulliver’s Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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