When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces… — Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
1711
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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
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Swift, Jonathan. "Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1st ed. London: John Morphew, 1711.
