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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth

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