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Jonathan Swift Quotes: Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
         

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.


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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.



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