Your Intellectual Inferiors

Posted on May 13, 2004 by sheila

“Don’t try to suck up or even be nice to your intellectual inferiors. They’ll only hate you more for it.”

— William Hazlitt

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4 Responses to Your Intellectual Inferiors

  1. Bill McCabe says:
    May 13, 2004 at 3:24 pm

    This is my favorite of today’s bunch. Thanks Sheila!

  2. dad says:
    May 13, 2004 at 3:49 pm

    Thomas Hazlitt said “”suck up”?

  3. red says:
    May 13, 2004 at 3:57 pm

    William Hazlitt?? Yes. Apparently he did.

    I got it out of Michael Schmidt’s book Lives of the Poets – so it is second-hand, I suppose.

  4. dad says:
    May 14, 2004 at 1:16 pm

    Dearest: William, of course. Perhaps it was thomas who said ‘suck up.’ BTW, I’m sure you saw the great piece on Kate’s My Fair Lady in today’s Times. How to go!. love, dad

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