"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever."
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Source: Answers to Correspondents. Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The Californian (June 17, 1865), reprinted in Mark Twain's book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, 1867.
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