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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Stupid
 
  Stupid as an excuse.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Stupid as a sloth.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Stupid as a fact.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  3
  Stupid as a stone.
            —Robert Browning		  4
  Loftily stupid, like dumb idols.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  5
  Stupid as a coot.
            —Frank Cowan (Dictionary of Sea Proverbs)		  6
  Stupid as a little downy owl.
            —George Du Maurier		  7
  Stupid … like Falstaff in his old age.
            —Thomas H. Huxley		  8
  Stupid as a log.
            —Isaac Jackman		  9
  Stupid as hounds chasing an iron deer.
            —Sydney Munden		  10
  Stupid as a post.
            —Clement Robinson		  11
  Stupid as the swine.
            —Hans Sachs		  12
  Stupid as a hog.
            —Leo Tolstoy		  13
 
 
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