You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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