I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pe…

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I cannot but conclude that 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. ✨ Gulliver's Travels A Voyage to Brobdingnag ch. 6 (1726)
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