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 SWIFTWise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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