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YOU, the last descendant of the Counts Hermenstein, a noble and loyal family, will degrade your birth by taking up with the rags and tags of humanity the scarecrows of life? And by your sheer stupidity and obstinacy, you will allow your husband's soul to be dragged to perdition with your own! You call it love to keep him an infidel?
Above all, he was unable to curb the outbreaks of impatience and anger excited by negligence or stupidity outbreaks which were often sufficiently amusing to the bystanders from the contrast between the old-fashioned violence of the language and the refined tones and lofty bearing of the speaker.
Saniel improved the opportunity to refer to his stupidity in frankly expressing his opinion on the solemn Balzajette. "It is probable," he said. "It is certain? Do you believe that during one year nothing has appeared in Madame Dammauville's disease that should demand new treatment? Do you think the solemn Balzajette is incapable of finding it all by himself?" "He is not so dull as you suppose."
"Nonsense," Monk added, speaking directly to Liane. "You imagined it all." She had recovered much of her composure, enough to enable her to shrug her disdain of such stupidity. "I tell you only what my two eyes saw." "To be sure," Monk agreed with a specious air of being wide open to conviction. "What became of him, then?" "You ask me that, knowing that in stress of terror I fainted!"
And then the frontiersman did a thing for which, when she heard of it one sunset later, his better half said words of him and to him that overstepped all bounds of parliamentary usage, and that only a wife would dare to employ. With the blundering stupidity of his sex, poor Arnold "settled things" for many a day and well-nigh ruined the sweetest romance that Sandy had ever seen the birth of.
That great artist Henri Monnier devoted a long life to the study and the collection of the finest examples of human stupidity, and marvellous as are some of the specimens preserved by him in his dialogues, I hardly think that he succeeded in discovering a finer gem than the phrase overheard by me in the Dowdeswell Galleries.
For the one enemy we have in this Universe is Stupidity, Darkness of Mind; of which darkness, again, there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source.
Adam's morning hymn has lost the freshness of its charm. The bores have got into Paradise scaled Heaven itself! and defied all the powers of Milton's hell. Such Belials and Molochs as we have heard! It is absolutely shocking to perceive how immortal genius is in the power of mortal stupidity!
Yet if cursing were to be done, David should rather have cursed his own stubbornness and stupidity. To go back for some years, this is what had happened. Squire Heaton's only son went wrong. The Squire raged, as was natural.
As the move failed, men have deemed it folly and stupidity; but he who knows how easy it is to be wise after events, will judge this confused policy of Cleopatra less curtly.
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