Thought for the Day
“Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.”
~ Jonathan Swift
*Jonathan Swift
Born: 30 November 1667 Dublin, Ireland1
Died: 19 October 1745 (age 77) Ireland
An Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier’s Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub.
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