Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not f… - Jonathan Swift

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Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Swift
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist. Acclaimed as one of the finest prose satirists in the English language, he was also well known for his poetry and essays.

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Alternative Names: Isaac Bickerstaff • M. B. Drapier • Lemuel Gulliver • Simon Wagstaff

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The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bit 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.

Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly. - Jonathan Swift

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