The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes November 23, 2008

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Obstinacy
Quotations by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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