It is against Stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

William Booth (1829–1912), British evangelist, founder of the Salvation Army
In Darkest England, and the Way Out, Part 1, ch. 5 (1890)

 
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