Part II, Chapter 6
One of the most quoted indictments of human nature in literature: 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'
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From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
After Gulliver proudly describes European civilization, the Brobdingnagian king delivers his famous condemnation of humankind as the most pernicious race of vermin ever to crawl upon the earth.
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