You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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