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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but… — Jonathan Swift

Satire

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

Jonathan Swift
1704
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Provenance
Current citation
Swift, Jonathan. "The Preface of the Author." A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works. Dover Publications, 1996.
Original citation
Swift, Jonathan. The Battle of the Books. London: John Nutt, 1704, preface.

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