Jonathan Swift:

We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest.

— Jonathan Swift Early Modern

Gulliver's Travels

A Tale of a Tub, Section IX

1704

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