There is not a shirk nor a dunce in the whole roll of sixty pupils!

Eivé, the dunce of our housed hold, won a Terrestrial picture-book on which she had set her fancy by tracing on a forty-inch globe, the first time she saw it, every detail of my journey from Ecasfe as she had heard me relate it; and Eunané, who had never left her Nursery, could describe beforehand any route I wished to take between the northern and southern ice-belts.

A flatterer is a dunce to him, for he can tell him nothing but what he knows before: and yet he loves him too, because he is like himself.

How much better it would have been if you were a dunce like me or your fatherbut a dunce at least who knows how to get a woman if he has to, without making a public ass of himself!"

Phr. a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits