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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery

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