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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Jonathan Swift

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFT

Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Heaven Rich Value
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself

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