"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders……" — 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."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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