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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Dreams are mere productions of the brain, And fools consult interpreters in vain.Jonathan Swift
Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat to do the job too long he tarried he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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