"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.“
-Jonathan Swift
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