Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.


The Works of D. Jonathan Swift: In Nine Volumes (ed. 1752)

Jonathan Swift Quotes

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of...

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of...

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of...

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of...