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Tag Name "Dunces" (10)
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Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.
Jill Ciment
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
Ambrose Bierce
Not all celebrities are dunces.
Carroll O'Connor
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.
John Hay
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Ambrose Bierce
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
C. S. Lewis