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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

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.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
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.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Appearance Genius Himself True
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold

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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