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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Nations
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Poor
Variance
Ever
Hungry
Hunger
Pride
Poverty
Proud

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