“Rod…were you born that stupid? Or did you have to study?”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book Tunnel in the Sky

Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 6, “I Think He Is Dead” (p. 104)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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