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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
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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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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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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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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
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hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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