It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
More Quotes from Jonathan Swift:
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.Jonathan Swift
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
Jonathan Swift
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore
Jonathan Swift
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Jonathan Swift
So geographers, in Afric Marriages, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Jonathan Swift
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
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