"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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"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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"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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"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
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