"But, as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions, upon which it entirely depends," is quoted by -

​• Correct answer - Jonathan Swift.
- উক্তিটি A Tale of a Tub থেকে নেয়া।

• A Tale of a Tub:
- ১৬৯৬ -১৬৯৯ সালের মধ্যে লেখা এই satire টি প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় ১৭০৪ সালে।
- তিনটি খন্ডে বিভক্ত এই সাহিত্যকর্মটিকে Jonathan Swift এর 'first major work' হিসাবে বিবেচনা করা হয়।
- A Tale of a Tub, an energetic defense of literature and religion against zealous pedantry.
- It is the first and perhaps most difficult of all his satires.

• Jonathan Swift:
- তিনি একজন Anglo-Irish author এবং Clergyman ছিলেন।
- তিনি ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ব্যঙ্গরচয়িতা বা Satirist ছিলেন।
- তার রচিত বিখ্যাত Satire হলো Gulliver’s Travels.
- এটি 18th Century এর একটি Famous Satire.
- এটি ৪ খণ্ডের একটি রম্য রচনা।
- তাঁর ছদ্মনাম Isaac Bickerstaff.

• His Famous Works:
- Gulliver's Travels (Novel),
- The Battle of Books,
- A Tale of a Tub (Prose Satire),
- A Modest Proposal (Satiric Essay),
- Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (Essay),
- A Journey to Stella (Collection of letters from Swift to Stella),

• তাঁর বিখ্যাত কিছু উক্তি:
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Book, the children of the brain.
- Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
- We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same.
- But, as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions, upon which it entirely depends.

Source: Britannica,lehigh.