Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
Jonathan SwiftLife is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Jonathan SwiftComplaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Jonathan Swift