“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”
Neal Shusterman book Everlost
Source: Everlost
“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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