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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather rid ...
Now, were I once at home, and in good satire,
I'd try conclusions with those Janizaries,
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
I'll publish, right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attrac ...
His poor, crazy, deformed body was a mere Pandora's box, containing all the physical ills that ever afflicted humanity. This, perh ...
His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were t ...
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power o ...
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-i ...
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
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