#imbecility

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ↗

— John Arbuthnot Fisher

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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. ↗

— Tristan Tzara

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment