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Jonathan Swift Quotes: It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
         

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.


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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.



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