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Thou art mad; and if thou wert so by thyself, and kept thyself within thy madness, it would not be so bad; but thou hast the gift of making fools and blockheads of all who have anything to do with thee or say to thee.

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Get thee home, blockhead, and see after thy affairs, and thy wife and children, and give over these fooleries that are sapping thy brains and skimming away thy wits."

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"By God, your worship is right," replied the Castilian; "for to advise this good man is to kick against the pricks; still for all that it fills me with pity that the sound wit they say the blockhead has in everything should dribble away by the channel of his knight-errantry; but may the bad luck your worship talks of follow me and all my descendants, if, from this day forth, though I should live longer than Methuselah, I ever give advice to anybody even if he asks me for it."

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"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" said Don Quixote; "where hast thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys without an outlet?"

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"Our guest has broken out on our hands," said Don Lorenzo to himself at this point; "but, for all that, he is a glorious madman, and I should be a dull blockhead to doubt it."

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Dost thou not see-shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!-that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler?

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This Don Quixote, or Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot, I imagine, be such a blockhead as your excellence would have him, holding out encouragement to him to go on with his vagaries and follies."

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Pious, well-meant reproof requires a different demeanour and arguments of another sort; at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with rudeness; and it is not seemly to call the sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin that is reproved.

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To which Merlin made answer, "The devil, Sancho, is a blockhead and a great scoundrel; I sent him to look for your master, but not with a message from Montesinos but from myself; for Montesinos is in his cave expecting, or more properly speaking, waiting for his disenchantment; for there's the tail to be skinned yet for him; if he owes you anything, or you have any business to transact with him, I'll bring him to you and put him where you choose; but for the present make up your mind to consent to this penance, and believe me it will be very good for you, for soul as well for body-for your soul because of the charity with which you perform it, for your body because I know that you are of a sanguine habit and it will do you no harm to draw a little blood."

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Don Quixote, my master, if I am to believe what I hear in these parts, is a madman of some sense, and a droll blockhead, and I am no way behind him.

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How dost thou apply them, thou blockhead?

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And why should I give them to you if I had them, you knave and blockhead?

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If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead."

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Who asked thee to meddle in my affairs, or to inquire whether I am a wise man or a blockhead?

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Don Quixote did as he recommended, for it struck him that Sancho's reasoning was more like a philosopher's than a blockhead's, and said he, "Sancho, if thou wilt do for me what I am going to tell thee my ease of mind would be more assured and my heaviness of heart not so great; and it is this; to go aside a little while I am sleeping in accordance with thy advice, and, making bare thy carcase to the air, to give thyself three or four hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins, on account of the three thousand and odd thou art to give thyself for the disenchantment of Dulcinea; for it is a great pity that the poor lady should be left enchanted through thy carelessness and negligence."

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On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.

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Get thee home, blockhead, and see after thy affairs, and thy wife and children, and give over these fooleries that are sapping thy brains and skimming away thy wits."

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"And could you not have said so at first, you blockhead?" said the Duke, signing the paper without looking at the contents-"What other letters?

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"I would have it so, you blockhead.

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Another thing is, there is a blockhead of an old Cavalier, who must needs be a bustler in the Countess of Derby's behalf-he is fast in hold, with the whole tribe of witnesses at his haunches."

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But your Laertes is fast in the Fleet; and I suppose his blundering blockhead of an antagonist is dead or dying."

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"I swear that not another word shall pass between you and that blockhead of a chief--not if I have to turn watch-dog myself!"

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"I swear that not another word shall pass between you and that blockhead of a chief--not if I have to turn watch-dog myself!"

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Later, Sanin, not because he disapproves of the libertine officer's affair with his sister, but because he regards the officer as a blockhead, treats him with scant courtesy; and the officer, hidebound by convention, sees no way out but a challenge to a duel.

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Sanin, who always says exactly what he thinks, and abhors all forms of hypocrisy, delivers the following funeral oration--heartily endorsed by the reader--in one sentence: "The world has now one blockhead the less."

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"Hark ye, blockhead," said the foremost.

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What blockheads these fat-witted English practitioners are."

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The blind, beastly, bigoted, blathering blockheads!

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People are influenced more by what a man says, if his practice is suitable to it, because they are blockheads.

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Besides, he brings up his sons to follow his steps; and if he findeth in any of them a foolish timorousness (for so he calls the first appearance of a tender conscience), he calls them fools, and blockheads, and by no means will employ them in much, or speak to their commendations before others.

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Dick told me at the bank that he was going to invite you, and then that young blockhead called for you."

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And here let me hint to the authors of the numerous parodies, and pretended imitations of Mr. Wordsworth's style, that at once to conceal and convey wit and wisdom in the semblance of folly and dulness, as is done in the Clowns and Fools, nay even in the Dogberry, of our Shakespeare, is doubtless a proof of genius, or at all events of satiric talent; but that the attempt to ridicule a silly and childish poem, by writing another still sillier and still more childish, can only prove (if it prove any thing at all) that the parodist is a still greater blockhead than the original writer, and, what is far worse, a malignant coxcomb to boot.

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The child knows not but that the bugbear is the proper object of fear, the blockhead knows not that a cannon-ball is so.

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And though I must confess I never thought Aristotle (whom I do not take for so great a blockhead as some who have never read him) doth not very well resolve the doubt which he hath raised in his Ethics, viz., How a man in the midst of King Priam's misfortunes can be called happy?

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Booth, as the reader may be pleased to remember, was a pretty good master of the classics; for his father, though he designed his son for the army, did not think it necessary to breed him up a blockhead.

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"Timothy, you blockhead," answered another; "--Timothy."

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Indeed it is not very probable he should; for the master, who, in preference to a very learned and proper man, was chosen by a party into this school, the salary of which was upwards of a hundred pounds a-year, had himself never travelled through the Latin Grammar, and was, in truth, a most consummate blockhead.

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Can honour dictate to him to disobey the express commands of his Maker, in compliance with a custom established by a set of blockheads, founded on false principles of virtue, in direct opposition to the plain and positive precepts of religion, and tending manifestly to give a sanction to ruffians, and to protect them in all the ways of impudence and villany?"

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The child knows not but that the bugbear is the proper object of fear, the blockhead knows not that a cannon-ball is so.

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"Timothy, you blockhead," answered another; "--Timothy."

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At last he quite startled them all by throwing down the cards and saying, in the most snappish of tones, "I wish the blockhead would come home."

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"Oh, Life," says Ahab, "here I am, proud as a Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead [the carpenter] for a bone to stand on!...

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Any blockhead can be a merchant now.

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But a man must be a blockhead, indeed, to expect the moon to remain one minute after it is full, as every night clips a little bit off, till there is a considerable junk gone by the time the week is out, and what is worse, every night there is more and more darkness afore it rises.

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"'What on airth do you mean,' sais she, 'you blockhead; it might as well mind you of tunder.'

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In this particular case, as in some others, we must allow that our worthy ancestors and forerunners upon this terraqueous planet were enormous blockheads.

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But, venerable blockheads, that argument applies to the case of him who locks up his borrowed guinea.

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Fox said, "How intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief!"

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Only blockheads adjust their scale of guilt to the scale of human punishments.

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Then let me tell you, that you are missing the very logic of all I have been saying for the improvement of blockheads, which is--that you should consult any man _but_ a medical man, since no other man has any obstinate prejudice of professional timidity.

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Kant was somewhat fastidious in matters of pronunciation; and this man had a great facility in catching the true sound of Latin words, the titles of books, and the names or designations of Kant's friends: not one of which accomplishments could Lampe, the most insufferable of blockheads, ever attain to.

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Only blockheads adjust their scale of guilt to the scale of human punishments.

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But two months later came a golden blockhead, who instructed the people that it was "sinful" to charge less than three shillings.

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But two months later came a golden blockhead, who instructed the people that it was "sinful" to charge less than three shillings.

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'His wife is marry, blockhead!' he say.

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'His wife is marry, blockhead!' he say.

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'His wife is marry, blockhead!' he say.

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These blockheads form the electorate and we submit to their will.

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Every superior mind will pass through this domain of equilibration,--I should rather say, will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration and formalism of bigots and blockheads.

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To have the verbal memory infested with tags of verse and "cues" of rhyme is in itself an infirmity as vulgar and as morbid as the stableboy's habit of whistling slang airs upon the mere mechanical excitement of a bar or two whistled by some other blockhead in some other stable.

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"I tell thee, Sancho, thou art a blockhead," said Don Quixote.

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Oh, but if I say anything against their wisdom, they will call me an ignorant blockhead.

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Oh, fools and blockheads!

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Now if you're not a blockhead mebbe you can guess what it is."

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I believe it is generally understood among naturalists that the crocodile is a blockhead.

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It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads.

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An' the loot was a hell of a blockhead that didn't know if he was coming or going."

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But if this is he we wait for In the night-time like two blockheads Faith!

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"Certainly, you old blockhead!" was the courteous reply of the viscount, as he followed his conductor into the building.

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But every desperate blockhead dares to write, Verse is the trade of every living wight.--Francis.

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For he used to say by way of jest, that he had ceased morari [602] amongst men, pronouncing the first syllable long; and treated as null many of his decrees and ordinances, as made by a doting old blockhead.

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But every desperate blockhead dares to write, Verse is the trade of every living wight.-Francis.

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For he used to say by way of jest, that he had ceased morari 602 amongst men, pronouncing the first syllable long; and treated as null many of his decrees and ordinances, as made by a doting old blockhead.

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The _Vyestnik Evropi_ will criticize the essay, and for three years there will be in Russia an epidemic of nonsense which will give money and popularity to blockheads and do nothing but irritate intelligent people.

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In fact, they execute their movements so naturally that many people have supposed them to be alive; but I assure you that they are all made of wood and wax--blockheads every one.

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Every earthly moral blockhead, a little educated, perhaps, is to be found in Utopia.

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in "Evelina," and Meadows, in "Cecilia," are mere blockheads, whose distinction is wholly due to the ludicrousness of their affectations; but in Sir Sedley she has attempted, and succeeded in the much more difficult task of portraying a man of naturally good parts and feelings, who, through idleness and vanity, has allowed himself to sink into the position of a mere leader of the ton, whose better nature rises at times, in spite of himself, above the flood of affectation and folly beneath which he endeavours to drown it.

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I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead; a very great man!'

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It may be _jure divino_ that the square on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the sides, that he is a blockhead who believes otherwise, and that a permanent apparatus should be set up in every land for teaching this mathematical faith; and yet it may be equally _jure divino_ that no one shall be compelled to avail himself of that apparatus, or be punished for doubting or denying the proposition.

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Bring us the looking-glass, you blockhead!

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the confounded blockhead.

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Ah blockhead!

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I am determined no longer to ask you to assist me; it is useless; I am a puppy, a wretch, a detestable blockhead, not worthy of any one taking any trouble for me, incapable of doing anything.

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"To be sure," returned Somerset, "I was a blockhead to be there; but when there, I should have despised myself forever had I given up my honor to the ruffians who would have wrested my sword from me!

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When I say 'lose two hours,' I must complain to you that the generality of Scotch preachers are excessive blockheads, so truly and obstinately dull, that they seem to shut out knowledge at every entrance."

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There you are again, cheating me with your irony; you take me for a blockhead, who will believe that an intelligent person like Hermotimus, at the age of forty, would accept the word of laymen about philosophy and philosophers, and make his own selection on the strength of what they said.

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The captain, like a well-bred man, had, before marriage, always given up his opinion to that of the lady; and this, not in the clumsy awkward manner of a conceited blockhead, who, while he civilly yields to a superior in an argument, is desirous of being still known to think himself in the right.

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"Why, husband," says she, "would any but such a blockhead as you not have enquired what place this was before he had accepted it?

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She had been all this time fretted in a tender part (for she was indeed very deeply skilled in these matters, and very violent in them), and therefore, burst forth in a rage, declared her brother to be both a clown and a blockhead, and that she would stay no longer in his house.

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_Scribimus indocti doctique passim_,[*] [*] --Each desperate blockhead dares to write: Verse is the trade of every living wight.--FRANCIS.

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Lastly, the slander of a book is, in truth, the slander of the author: for, as no one can call another bastard, without calling the mother a whore, so neither can any one give the names of sad stuff, horrid nonsense, &c., to a book, without calling the author a blockhead; which, though in a moral sense it is a preferable appellation to that of villain, is perhaps rather more injurious to his worldly interest.

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