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For of a truth stupidity is strong, most strong, as the poet Schiller sings, "Against stupidity the very gods fight invictorious. - Thomas Carlyle The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. - Charles Caleb Colton What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The worst of it is, dullness is catching. - Douglas William Jerrold He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard. - Joseph Joubert It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. - Henry Louis Mencken Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. - Alexander Pope A dull man is so near a dead man that he is hardly to lie ranked in the list of the living; and as he is not to be buried whilst he is half alive, so he is little to be employed whilst he is hald dead. - John Faucit Saville
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