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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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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
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
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When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
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