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simpleton
«He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.»
«We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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In books, overwhelming, Pliny, simpleton, simpletons, studying, The Ashes, very much like, Vesuvius
«SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accused, agonies, Augustine, compel, deemed, forerunner, forerunners, naively, Nicholas, prototype, prototypes, simpleton, simpletons, sorcerer, sorcerers, sorcery, The Suffering, tormentor
«The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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madhouse, madmen, simpleton, simpletons
«His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Snobbery
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derivative, immune, in other words, simpleton, simpletons, snobbishness, snobs
«The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.»