"A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species."

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The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

— Samuel Johnson