“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”

— Jonathan Swift , book Les Voyages de Gulliver

On the Emperor of Lilliput, in Voyage to Lilliput, Ch. 2
Gulliver's Travels (1726)

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

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