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Jonathan Swift

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IX.  STELLA'S BIRTHDAYS
X.  TO STELLA
XI.  THE FIRST HE WROTE OCT.  17, 1727.
XII.  THE SECOND PRAYER WAS WRITTEN NOV.  6, 1727.
XIII.  THE BEASTS' CONFESSION (1732).
XIV.  ABOLISHING CHRISTIANITY
XV.  HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION.
XVI.  THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 

THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 

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.  But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger
is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to
apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to
provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the
sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and
to render all its efforts feeble and impotent.

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