If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any. (Jonathan Swift)

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Jonathan Swift

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