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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind

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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/13/2004, 9:56pm)
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