How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much …

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). The Adolescent, p.6, Vintage
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