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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. - Jonathan Swift

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English novelist. Lived 1667 - 1745

Born:30th November, 1667
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Starsign: Sagittarius

Author Keywords: Novelist, English

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Brian Moore, George Sand, Georges Duhamel, Tom Robbins, Sir Walter Scott

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