You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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