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W.H. Auden, Selected Essays Quotes: The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
         

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.


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