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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet pe

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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