|| Jonathan Swift ||

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Satire is a sort of glass,
wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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Vision is the art
of seeing things invisible.

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May you live all the days of your life.

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When a true genius
appears in this world,
you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in
confederacy against him.

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We have just enough religion
to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love
one another.

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Laws are like cobwebs,
which may catch small flies,
but let wasps and hornets break through.

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He was a bold man
that first ate an oyster.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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A wise man
should have money in his head,
but not in his heart.

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The proper words
in the proper places are the true definition of style.

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