Jonathan Swift, Famously, on a Confederacy of Dunces

Posted on November 6, 2020 | Leave a comment

“When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.”

Jonathan Swift

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.

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