“Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.”

— Jonathan Swift , book Les Voyages de Gulliver

Voyage to Houyhnhnms, Ch. 5
Gulliver's Travels (1726)

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

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