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Lose no time to contradict her,
Nor endeavour to convict her;
Only take this rule along,
Always to advise her wrong,
And reprove her when she's right;
She may then crow wise for spite.

— Jonathan Swift

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The Poems of Jonathan Swift, vol. 2 (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1910)

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