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" One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. "
Jonathan Swift
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" I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. "
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" He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. "
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" Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. "
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" A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. "
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" A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. "
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" Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. "
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" A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. "
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" Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. "
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" It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. "
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" Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. "
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" Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. "
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" May you live all the days of your life. "
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" Every dog must have his day. "
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" When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. "
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You
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" Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. "
Jonathan Swift
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" Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. "
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Power
Innocent
" Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. "
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Nothing
" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "
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Without
" It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. "
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" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "
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Life
" My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. "
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" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "
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Age
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" Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. "
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Blessed
Disappointed
" The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. "
Jonathan Swift
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Happy
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" I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. "
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I Wonder
Fool
" Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. "
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" I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. "
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