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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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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

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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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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