"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with…" — Alexander Pope
"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope has 532 quotes on this site.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
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More Dunce Quotes
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
— George Santayana
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As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds…
— Clive James
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There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether…
— Robert Bellarmine
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The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
— Daniel Tosh
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched…
— Rajneesh
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For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
— James Russell Lowell
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
— Charles Churchill
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
— Emma Goldman
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
— William Cowper
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I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds,…
— Anne Frank
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