“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”
The Star Rover
Variant: Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel
“The Turk is cruel, but he is perfectly stupid, and is no match for the sagacious Albanian.”
New York Times (September 12th, 1912) http://www.thealbanians.com/historical_press/issa_boletini.htm.
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