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Jonathan Swift

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
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The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
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