Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as 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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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English writer and churchman
“Thoughts on Various Subjects” (1706)
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