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

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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children 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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