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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
Jonathan Swift
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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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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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