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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ↗

— 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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. ↗

— 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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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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