“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258
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“The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it.”
When asked in 1956 why in February 1954 he had sat with patient Clara Neil Miller for forty minutes with her "bed clothes all off... and over the foot rail of the bed, her night gown up around her chest and the window in the room open top and bottom", while Adams read to her from the Bible.
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