You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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