{"date":"February 25","id":"02-25","intro":["The brilliant wit and cutting satire of Defoe made for him friends and enemies—but mostly enemies. So piercing and two-edged was “The Shortest-Way with Dissenters” that he was fined, imprisoned and pilloried."],"minutes":27,"readings":[{"author":"Daniel Defoe","end":147,"start":133,"volume":27,"work":"The Shortest-Way with Dissenters"}],"slug":"february-25","status":"proofread","title":"Punished for Too Sharp a Wit","url":"/harvard-classics/february-25/","words":5465}