As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
- Life
- 1667-1745
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, satirist
- Notable works
- Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in this world, you will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift