#con

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#born #conflict #knows #strength #vanquished

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#dignity #enemy #our #vanity

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ↗

— 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

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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