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| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. |
| Stupidity |
| For of a truth stupidity is strong—most strong, as the poet Schiller sings, “Against stupidity the very gods fight unvictorious.” There is in it a placid inexhaustibility—a calm viscous infinitude—which will baffle even the gods,—which will say calmly, “Try all your lightnings here: see whether I cannot quench them.” | 1 |
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