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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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