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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.


Jonathan Swift


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He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language[dubious – discuss] and is less well known for his poetry. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irishsatirist essayist political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs then for the Tories) poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin.

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