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Quotes from Essay on the Fates of Clergymen — Jonathan Swift

1667–1745 Ireland

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This evil fortune, which generally attends extraordinary men in the management of great affairs, has been imputed to divers causes, that need not be here set down, when so obvious a one occurs, if what a certain writer observes be true, that when a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Essay on the Fates of Clergymen (1728)

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