What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yours…

George Orwell
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Animal Farm and 1984, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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