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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.

Jonathan Swift

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Learning Wind Word

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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