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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

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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
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
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