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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
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Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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