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Date: May 10, 1704
"Now it usually happens that these active spirits, getting possession of the brain, resemble those that haunt other waste and empty dwellings, which for want of business either vanish and carry away a piece of the house, or else stay at home and fling it all out of the windows."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)