“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
— Jonathan Swift
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The power of fortune is confessed only
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
— Jonathan Swift
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I never knew a man come to
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
— Jonathan Swift
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For in reason, all government without the
“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
— Jonathan Swift
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The power of fortune is confessed only
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
— Jonathan Swift
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No man was ever so completely skilled
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
— Jonathan Swift
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The best doctors in the world are
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
— Jonathan Swift
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The best doctors in the world are
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Although men are accused of not knowing
“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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