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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Jonathan Swift
Running, Talent, Human Nature
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.46

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

Jonathan Swift
Men, Talent, Figures
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from September 1725 to May 1732”, p.373

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Jonathan Swift
Lying, Bears, Talent
Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Poems, Polite convesation, etc”, p.166

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Jonathan Swift
Men, Talent, Despise

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