Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover every
body's face but their own;--which is the chief reason for that kind of
reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with
it.--_Swift_.

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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter
kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.--_Shenstone_.

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Old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the
foot.--_Swift_.

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If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much
importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of
fame, there are many would thank them for the bill.--_Sheridan_.

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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they
are employed on, as when they have lost their edge.--_Swift_.

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Exile is no evil: mathematicians tell us that the whole earth is but a