Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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