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John Steinbeck quote: "Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing..."

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

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Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong. John Steinbeck
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