Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A nor…

Umberto Eco
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Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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