You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTReason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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 a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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