Jonathan Swift Quotes
Whence proceeds this weight we lay
On what detracting people say?
Their utmost malice cannot make
Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
Or put one feature out of place.
Citations
Swift, Jonathan. "To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems." The Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. 14, edited by Sir Walter Scott, Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, p. 524.
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".