When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that all the dunces are in confederation against him.
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It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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