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

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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? – English Proverb

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Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own. – John Wooden

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