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• A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

  William Hazlitt

  Silence, Looks, Benefits

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

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• When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Genius, World

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• No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

  John Dryden

  Government, Server

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• When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Wise, Brother

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

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