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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. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#been #man #never #own #saying

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mistake #own #themselves #very #will

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#friends #good #hurt #more #ten

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#best #bred #converse #easy #fewest

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#ate #bold #first #man #old man

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#cold #esteem #love #love is #volatile

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#animal #called #detest #forth #hate

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#made #promises

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only