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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Not all celebrities are dunces.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.
