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- And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
- But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
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- People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
- Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Would with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen.
- Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Would with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen. To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace. Book ii.
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