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Quote by Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this

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

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

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Carpe Diem
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Jonathan Swift
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift

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Seduction
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Jonathan Swift
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Other Quotes from
Conformity
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Conformity

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! – W.J. Reichmann

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Conformity

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. – Robert Peel

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Conformity

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Conformity

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My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication. – Della Reese

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you cant drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against em anyway, you dont belong in office. – Molly Ivins

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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims. – Francesca Annis

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