“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
April 5, 1776, p. 302
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
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