You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe 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 knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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