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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

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Head Heart Man Wisdom
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Easy Light Reason Ride
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Talk Wild
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Dog One Liner

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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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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