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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

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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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
It 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.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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

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

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