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Ep 594 - Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift's Early Life

Jonathan Swift was educated at Kilkenny Grammar School in Trinity College Dublin, where he was censored for offenses against discipline and had to obtain his degree by quote special grace. Funniest thing from Jonathan Swift's early life that I learned is that his dad died from syphilis, which he claimed to have gotten from quote unquote dirty sheets when he was out of town. No. Those were dirty sheets. He just made the Dean mad in one of those old college, like hiding movies.

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