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is an obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

is militant irony: its moral norms are relatively clear, and it assumes standards against which the grotesque and absurd are measured.

militant irony: its moral norms are relatively clear, and it assumes standards against which the grotesque and absurd are measured.

is, tragically, that which, today, keeps a watch over ethics. This amounts to something like sending a young girl to a brothel to safeguard her innocence.

Then, because of worldliness, the church doubted' and the 'newspapers''and the public became ethical authorities! Finally, the most degraded part of the daily press, under the name of satire, kept a watch over ethics! [T]his is something like sending a young girl to a brothel'to safeguard her innocence.

is often more effectual than law or gospel.

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

is a sort of mirror wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

1s 2ature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

 angers a man because it is true, just as libel angers him because it is false.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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