“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
— Nevil Shute, book Round the Bend
Source: Round the Bend
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Source: Angels & Demons
