Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

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On A Very Old Glass At Market-Hill

Frail glass! thou mortal art as well as I;
Though none can tell which of us first shall die.

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

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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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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

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Answered Extempore By Dr. Swift

We both are mortal; but thou, frailer creature,
May'st die, like me, by chance, but not by nature.

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

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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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