Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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Faith He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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