Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. ✨ 'Whitshed's Motto on his …

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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. ✨ 'Whitshed's Motto on his Coach' (1724) (Libertas... Freedom and the land of my birth)
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Every dog must have his day. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1860). The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, p.513
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door ✨ Jonathan Swift (2 … ▶
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1761). Works, … ▶

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. ✨ 'Whitshed's Motto on his Coach' (1724) (Libertas... Freedom and the land of my birth)

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