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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as n

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – 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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