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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Satire
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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

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages? – William Booth

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – G. K. Chesterton

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. – Sherrill Brown

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