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Will e'en an Ass. Professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British Med. Ass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

Prof. (to hesitating student). - You do think Balaam's ass did speak slow as that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

Prof. (facetiously). - You do allow, then, an ass to know more Hebrew than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...Coat and we will be happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent a Sadder, but alas! not a wiser child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FABLE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

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