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The Battle of the Books and other Short PiecesDownload Now...

by Jonathan Swift (Author) , Henry Morley (Editor)

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1426407432

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134

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From the author\'s preface: 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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