A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. [ Pope ]

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. [ Churchill ]

Time-honored golf! I heard it whispered once
That he who could not play was held a dunce
On old Olympus, when it teemed with gods. [ G. F. Carnegie ]

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! [ Schiller ]

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. [ Lowell ]

I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant. [ Goldsmith ]