"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."
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Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)
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