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“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign:
That the dunces are all in confederacy against him”
Jonathan Swift
“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” -Jonathan Swift
But most of the confederacies that I have seen united against individuals or causes are made up of dunces of one form or another. How do we pick out the geniuses from the plethora of the scorned?