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

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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

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