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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

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
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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