He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ✨ 1738 Polite Conversation…

Jonathan Swift
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ✨ 1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: … ▶
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