You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
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