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Quotation from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth”

Jonathan Swift (spoken by The King of Brobdingnag)

Gulliver's Travels, Part II, Ch. 6 (1735 Faulkner text)

Portrait of Jonathan Swift

The king's verdict after hearing Gulliver's proud account of English history and institutions.

Citation: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth" — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part II, Ch. 6 (1735 Faulkner text). (id gullivers-travels-q1)

Portrait: Jonathan Swift, Charles Jervas, Public domain.

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