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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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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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