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Card VIII-11: JONATHAN SWIFT – Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Series VIII · Card 11 of 21 · THE SCRIPTORIUM

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

JONATHAN SWIFT · THE EXAMINER · 1710

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Source

The Examiner, no. 15 (no. 14 in reprints), 2–9 November 1710

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About the author

Anglo-Irish satirist (1667–1745). Author of “Gulliver’s Travels”. Master of irony and political satire whose work still cuts through institutional absurdity.

The question on the back

How often have you believed something that later turned out false?