blockhead quotes

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 5  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumbers in his head.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.612^3.

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