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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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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
Men
Peter
Love
Forth
John
Although
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Principally
Literature
Detest
Hate
Thomas

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