Jonathan Swift:

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words; for whoever is master of an art, and hath a proper fund of materials, and a suitable talent for their arrangement, will readily deliver his thoughts without any difficulty or hesitation.

— Jonathan Swift Early Modern

Gulliver's Travels

Context

Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders

Date / Period

1721

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm

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