Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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p. 369Ambrose Bierce
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The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.Samuel Woodworth
Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang (‘argot’) exists not anymore.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Imam Hassan has explained the Islamic doctrine of God and the Universe by analogy with the sun and its reflection in the pool of a fountain; there is certainly a reflection or image of the sun, but with what poverty and with what little reality; how small and pale is the likeness between this impalpable image and the immense, blazing, white-hot glory of the celestial sphere itself. Allah is the sun; and the Universe, as we know it in all its magnitude, and time, with its power, is nothing more than the reflection of the Absolute in the mirror of the fountain.
Aga Khan III
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!William Cowper
I [Boswell] was somewhat disappointed in finding that the edition of The English Poets, for which he was to write Prefaces and Lives, was not an undertaking directed by him: but that he was to furnish a Preface and Life to any poet the booksellers pleased. I asked him if he would do this to any dunce's works, if they should ask him.
JOHNSON: "Yes, Sir, and say he was a dunce."Samuel Johnson
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