The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.
Jonathan SwiftHuman brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan SwiftThe power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift