The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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