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Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
(30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an
Anglo
-
Irish
satirist
,
essayist
and
poet
.
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”A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
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Simple
: A good man has very bad ideas.
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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies
(1711-1726)
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