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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

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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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Dublin city
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
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