There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFTDon’t set your wit against a child.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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