Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest par…

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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1755). The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory, p.227
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ✨ Jonathan Swift (1755). The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory, p.227

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