The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. – W. Somerset Maugham

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