One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand …

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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious. ✨ Douglas Adams (2012). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five, p.40, Pan Macmillan
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