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Satire

Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 608.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch thats scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace Pope.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.John Oldham, Satire upon a Printer, line 36.

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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reservd to blame, or to commend, A timrous foe, and a suspicious friend.Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires, line 201.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires, line 307. Sporus, Lord John Hervey.

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There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough.Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace, Satire I, line 2.

Satires my weapon, but Im too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace. Satire I, line 71.

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