Jonathan Swift Quote

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Miscellanies. The Fifth Ed., Corrected with Several Additional Pieces in Verse and Prose (ed. 1747)

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.