if the Muses must inspireYour fancy with their pleasing fire,Take subjects safer for your witThan those on which you lately writ.Commend the times, your thoughts correct,And follow the prevailing sect — Dialogue Between an Eminent Lawyer and Dr Swift
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Swift on lawyers
"I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth, in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves … It is likewise to … Continue reading Swift on lawyers
Sir Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump
A messenger was dispatched half a day's journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach; and to desire that his majesty would please to appoint a day and hour, when it would be his gracious pleasure, that I might have the honour to lick the dust before his footstool. This is the … Continue reading Sir Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump
Notes in the Margins of the Days 