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"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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