A Quote by Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.
When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
Never give your heart to a blockhead.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
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