Jonathan Swift Quote

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.


The works of dr. Jonathan Swift, with some account of the author's life, and notes by J. Hawkesworth [and others]. Revised (ed. 1765)


It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.