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Featuring opening lines of some of the greatest works of literature including "It was the best of times
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A Modest Proposal Babygro Posters & Prints Featuring opening lines of someA Modest Proposal is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Swift's native Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, "A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and