"The fact is that previously they were simply……" — Ivan Turgenev

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• There is no dunce like a mature dunce. — George Santayana
• As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds… — Clive James
• There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether… — Robert Bellarmine
• Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce
• The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a… — Donald Harington
• Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity.… — Jill Ciment
• The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. — Daniel Tosh
• Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till… — Oliver Goldsmith
• Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite
• In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has… — C.S. Lewis
• We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. — C.S. Lewis
• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. — Isaac D'Israeli

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