Jonathan Swift (Irish - Writer)
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
May you live all the days of your life.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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