Maxioms by Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
