“A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.”

—  Jonathan Swift, book A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal (1729)

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

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