Jonathan Swift — "Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving: Give no more t…"

Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving: Give no more to every Guest, Than he's able to digest; Give him always of the Prime; And but little at a Time. Carve to all but just enough: Let them neither starve nor stuff: And, that you may have your Due, Let your Neighbours carve for you.
Jonathan Swift — Jonathan Swift Early Modern · Gulliver's Travels

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An Epistle to a Lady Who Desired the Author to Write Some Verses Upon Her in the Heroic Style

Date: 1732

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