An Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet.. Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer poet and cleric
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The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. Go to Quote / Comment
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Go to Quote / Comment
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 Go to Quote / Comment
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. Go to Quote / Comment
Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Go to Quote / Comment