"Stupidity is much the same all the world over"
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"All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation."
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"In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it."
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"A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity."
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"Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously."
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"Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?"
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"To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity."
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"Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable."
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"Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences."
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"This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane."
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"kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both."
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"A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence."
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