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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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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. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.
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How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
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