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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. – Jonathan Swift

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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A little man often cast a long shadow. – Italian Proverb

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Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. – English Proverb

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It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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