Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mi…

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Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. ✨ Jonathan Swift (2011). Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings, p.625, Bantam Classics
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