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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
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Admit
Ashamed
Yesterday
Prove
Wrong
Today
Proves
Writing
Wiser
Never
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