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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.

Jonathan Swift

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

Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fake Philosophy Truth
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Cruelty People
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Insect Life Live Misery
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Gold Man Strength Weakness
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild

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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