"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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"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.“
-Jonathan Swift
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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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"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
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"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
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