Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is …

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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.11, RosettaBooks
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God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore. ✨ A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal. Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.11, RosettaBooks

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