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«VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: dunces, impediment, vituperation
«DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: divination, dunce, dunces, nosing, occult
«ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: dunces, ethnology, idiots, robbers, thieves, treats, tribes
«A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: dunce, dunces, wits
«The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.»
Author: Emma Goldman | Keywords: alternative, arena, dunce, dunces, political arena, rogue
«There is no dunce like a mature dunce»
Author: George Santayana (Humanist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Mankind | Keywords: dunce, dunces, mature
«George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning»
Author: Henry Fielding (Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: dunce, dunces, thrive
«Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: confound, dunce, dunces
«And nobody calls you a dunce, / And people suppose me clever: / This could but have happened once, / And we missed it, lost it for ever.»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: dunce, dunces
«How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: dunce, dunces, excels
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