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“He [Jonathan Swift] was a great man, and yet he was partially blind. He could only see one thing at a time. His vision of human society is so penetrating, and yet in the last analysis it's false. He couldn't see what the simplest person sees, that life is worth living and human beings, even if they're dirty and ridiculous, are mostly decent. But after all, if he could have seen that I suppose he couldn't have written Gulliver's Travels.”

Optimism Pessimism George Orwell Jonathan Swift

Book:Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings

Source: Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings

“Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.”

Hate Golden Rule Neighbors Jonathan Swift The Tables Of The Law

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays