You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTAy, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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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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