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"Eating and Drinking"
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"Church of Ireland"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"From Whig to Tory"
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Author name:
"Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)"
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"Prose Fiction"
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Date: May 10, 1704
"He that can with Epicurus content his ideas with the films and images that fly off upon his senses from the superficies of things, such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up."
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