When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Gulliver's Travels
Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
1706
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"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."
Humorous"I desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it …"
Controversial"We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are of the same kind."
Humorous"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."
Humorous"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."
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