For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
From Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Don't set your wit against a child.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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