"I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities."
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"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
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"For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?"
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"There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher."
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"The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding."
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"If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it."
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"We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves"
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"To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?"
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"What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing."
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"The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie."
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"There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge."
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"As if there were safety in stupidity alone"
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"When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!"
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"Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity."
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"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity."
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"Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity."
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"I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison"
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"He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person."
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"Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it."
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"Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates."
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