Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Jonathan Swift
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About Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jonathan SwiftInterest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.