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«I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.»
Author: Harold Bloom
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
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academies, academy, Academy A, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, dominated by, early on, human voice, knaves, literary, status, The academy
«Honest men are the soft, easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.»
«Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
(Writer)
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bubbles, flower power, knaves, plants, power plant, sows, trains
«HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. --Salder Bupp»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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blundered, knaves, lied, Niebuhr, Roman history
«History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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History
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account, an account, brought, brought about, events, knaves, mostly, rulers, soldiers, unimportant
«The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves»
«Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.»
«He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family, was begot by a flash of lightning.»
«They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves»
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