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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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