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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Human Rights Activist
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Isaac Bickerstaff
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Lemuel Gulliver
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
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