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Jonathan Swift on Success

1667–1745 Ireland

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

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

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

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