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[mmepompadour]

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."
--Jonathan Swift

Comments

[boldar]

I really like this quote. Thank you for sharing.

[irishrose26]

i love that.

[deadspook]

Swift is the man. My favorite highlight is when he "modestly" proposed the middle class and the rich eat all the poor people to get rid of poverty. I dig really twisted satire, especially when the author lived in really conservative times.

[ronteflon]

Not to nitpick -- ah, who am I kiddin' -- but the proposal was for the persons of quality and fortune of through the kingdom to be able to purchase the children of the poor for consumption over the market.

After all, persons over 12 were deemed to be of little nutritional value and hence we couldn't just go eating ALL of the poor people. But Swift himself had no children of his own to sell, so his proposition couldn not possibly be tainted by selfishness! ^_^

[ronteflon]

*little value relative to the cost of getting them to that age, I should say!

[deadspook]

Ahh..you're right. I should have made the distinction, especially since it's that much more evil to just eat the kids. :D

[josienutter]

Happy birthday! :)

[atlasimpure]

And admitting to that strength is our most crippling fear.

[mmepompadour]

Apparently.<3