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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

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe

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