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Jonathan Swift Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness
  • Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

    Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan”, p.255
  • Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

    Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1768). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies in prose”, p.250

Jonathan Swift

  • Born: November 30, 1667
  • Died: October 19, 1745
  • Occupation: Pamphleteer
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