Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1…

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.42
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