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When the best way to the Governor’s favour was to be intelligent, intelligence would become the fashion.
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Somerset Maugham, The Door of Opportunity (in Collected Short Stories 2), p. 406
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Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
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Somerset Maugham, Mr. Harrington’s Washing (in Collected Short Stories 3), p. 189
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All the branches of Christianity suffer by the fact that they seem to be unable to take in the greatest contribution of the modern world to ethical theory, to wit, the concept of a moral obligation to be intelligent.
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H. L. Mencken, in The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic, p. 295