There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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