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Thy envy, then, and rage give over,
Thou worthless, mean, rejected lover!
Or in a print I swear to show you,
So like that all mankind shall know you.

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Yet still, in principles, 'tis known
We judge of others by our own...

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When a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

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Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

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Lying is an occupation,
Used by all who mean to rise;
Politicians owe their station
But to well concerted lies.
Study this superior science
Would you rise in Church or State;
Bid to truth a bold defiance;
'Tis the practice of the great.

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By the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

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I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease...

Letitia Pilkington

Letitia Pilkington

Letitia Pilkington

Born: 1709

Died: 1750 (aged 41)

Bio: Laetitia Pilkington was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet. Her Memoirs are the source of much of what is known of the personalities and habits of Jonathan Swift and others.

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