Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
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But you think... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.Jonathan Swift
Observation is an old man's memory.
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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.
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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.
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If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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