More from The Colonel, in Polite Conversation, dialogue 2 (1738)
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- When a true genius appears in this world, you will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
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