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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

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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
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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