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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
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Yesterday
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Wrong
Today
Proves
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Wiser
Never
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