Little Odious Vermin

King of Brobdingnag: But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude 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.

King of Brobdingnag Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift

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Context: After hearing Gulliver proudly describe the laws, politics and history of England, the giant king gives his verdict.

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Source: Part II, Chapter VI

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