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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.

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For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.
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