The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Gulliver's Travels
Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
1706
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"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."
Humorous"The three grand enemies of human happiness are public envy, civil discord, and religious faction."
Controversial"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."
Humorous"I have always been a great admirer of the proverb, 'Necessity is the mother of invention'."
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