#blockhead

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ↗

— George Savile

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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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