Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleve…

John Steinbeck
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. ✨ John Steinbeck (2002). East of Eden, p.250, Penguin
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