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Be sure to have a letter for me at Greenock, to the care of your old correspondent George Neil, who is land-waiter there.
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Give a guinea to a knavish land-waiter, and he shall connive at the merchant for cheating the Queen of an hundred.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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