When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
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- No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
- Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
- Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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