Quote by Charles Churchill
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. - Charles Churchill

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. – Charles Churchill

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Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtues cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtues friend. – Charles Churchill

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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. – Bhagavad Gita

To be ignorant of ones ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. – Amos Bronson Alcott

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. – Arabic Proverb

The Cardinal is at his wits end — it is true that he had not far to go. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. – Simone de Beauvoir

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