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Edward Abbey Quotes: Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
         

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.


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