An Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet.. Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer poet and cleric
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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;... Go to Quote / Comment
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. Go to Quote / Comment
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter. Go to Quote / Comment
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Go to Quote / Comment
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. Go to Quote / Comment