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Jonathan Swift

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An Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet.. Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer poet and cleric


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Quote Left She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. Quote Right
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Quote Left Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into Quote Right
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Quote Left Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. Quote Right
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