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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

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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
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Priest
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Dublin city
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Lemuel Gulliver
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