You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFT
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Every dog must have his day.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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