"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
— Dunce

January 1, 1970

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Variant: When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift, Essay on the Fates of Clergymen (1728).