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  • When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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    Jonathan Swift (1823). “The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc”, p.300
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When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. - Jonathan Swift
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