Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
30
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
QUOTATION:
And, he gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make two Ears of Corn, or two Blades of Grass to grow upon a Spot of Ground where only one grew before; would deserve better of Mankind, and do more essential Service to his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together.
ATTRIBUTION:
JONATHAN SWIFT, “A Voyage to Brobdingnag,” Gulliver’s Travels, part 2, pp. 119–20, in The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, vol. 11 (1941).
