Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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