A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
From Jonathan Swift
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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