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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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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 his relish…
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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had…
— C.S. Lewis
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We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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