“I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.”

—  Larry Niven, book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 40 “Farewell” (p. 397)

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